April 12, 2010

Post date: Apr 16, 2010 5:21:10 PM

Sea pens anchor themselves on the seafloor and use their feathery plumes to catch food drifting by on the ocean currents. They glow blue-green when disturbed! We took the photo below at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

Check out this link for a picture of a sea pen taken by a robot submarine in the Monterey Canyon:

http://www.icyte.com/saved/www.mbari.org/134251?key=9e8f6fd53964fb3554dd9dff0cfd13c159129db2