MBARI provides a deep-sea valentine

Valentine's Day conjures up a lot of things, but this is the first time I've seen it expressed in the form of a bioluminescent comb jelly, a bloated starfish, a brittle star, some really outlandish octopi, jellyfish from a bathypelagic nightmare, a blood-red shrimp, a hairy crab, some deep-sea corals, a few other denizens of the deep, and The Thing from Seconds :44-:55. (Aiiieeee!)

It's astonishing.

Happy Valentine's Day

(MBARI is the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, brought to you by Hewlett-Packard)