I hugely enjoyed ‘Ocean Art'. It’s teeming with wondrous creatures, & human perceptions changing due to both art & science. Helen Scales' first book was on seahorses, & here it’s her first image.
🎨 Hashime Murayama, 1920

#IconicFishes #seahorse #NewBook #OceanArt #HelenScales #ocean #SeaLife #SciComm

"Did you know there is a place on Earth that’s hardly been explored at all? A place with near-freezing temperatures, crushing water pressure and total darkness?"
This book of "the world’s strangest, scariest and most magnificent sea creatures" looks fun:
https://curatingcambridge.co.uk/products/beasts-from-the-deep

#MarineLife #ChildrensBook #CambridgeUniversity #HelenScales #NewBook @bookstodon

I knew that hermit crabs may "deliberately grab anemones and fix them to their shells, making a stinging line of defence". I did NOT know they sometimes "bring their favourite anemones along with them when they move to a new house" 😮🐚

Greatly enjoying Helen Scales's book Spirals in Time

#nature #seashells #molluscs #books #NatureWriting #sea #HelenScales #MarineBiology

Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells by Helen Scales #SpiralsInTime #seashells #HelenScales #RecycleBookstore #SanJose

“Molluscs may not seem life's most exciting phylum. But Helen Scales, a marine biologist-turned-science writer, makes an impassioned and convincing case otherwise.” ―The Economist