Picture yourself as a clam lying on the bottom of Deep Cove bay, Vancouver Island. This starfish approaches you. He likes you, as food. B...

I found the plumose anemones (see previous post) on a jetty at Deep Cove bay. The jetty and bridge are overgrown with foolish mussels, Myti...

It can grow up to 1 meter high: the giant plumose anemone (Metridium farcimen) . The specimens I saw were not higher than 25 cm. It’s one o...

This is the Lewis's moonsnail (Euspira lewisii) . It lives in and on sand where it preys on bivalves like the Pacific gaper (Tresus nutt...

From above it looks like a tadpole, in profile it looks like a scorpionfish. There is a fish called the tadpole sculpin, but this is the buf...

Orcinus orca , the scientific name of the orca or killer whale. It means something like the creature from hell. If I am not mistaken, th...