Monday 21 July 2008

Bahamas

Plankton fiming can be complicated so a shitload of equipment has to be bubblewrapped, packed and ready to use at the other end. The objectives are to film a wide variety of plankters including a Chaetognath predation sequence. Also known as Arrow worms these torpedo shaped predators have been found as fossils among the Chengjiang fauna of China, which is a lower Cambrian 520 million years old lagerstatten deposit. The extant species look remarkably similar to their fossil counterparts, so it will be exciting to film such ancient predatory behaviour.

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