Rare Species Netted in the Philipines!

Sea Basin Expedition Nets Rare Species from the Celebes Sea south of the Philippines, a biologically diverse area of ocean.

Some possibly 'new' species include a transparent sea cucumber, a spiny 10-tentacled orange worm, and a black jellyfish. Follow the AP article's link to see a photo of some of these rare denizens formerly hidden so well from our view.

And since I've never drawn a black jellyfish (didn't know there were any!) here's a noble re-post of a white jelly, titled,Jelly's Leavin' by yours truly using Prismacolor oil pencils and Rexel Derwent Watercolour pencils.

Neptune's realm is giving up some of its mysterious species, it seems, and Neptune rules fish and fishing 'nets' too!

New Mollusk Species Found in Philippines

Panglao Island, Philippines:

It may be true--appr 6,000 species of mollusks and over 1,200 species of decapod crustaceans--have been found and are in process of being studied to be positive that the novel critters are really new to science. The area was surveyed in 2005-05 by volunteers from 80 countries.

Don't know about you, but I'm as pleased as can be! Good work!


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