Bluebottles in the Bay – a sign of things to come?

The recent discovery of Bluebottle jellyfish on Portsea back beach and Bellarine front beach received a low key response in Melbourne mainstream media. Despite a fearful reputation that routinely causes closure of Queensland beaches, a web search revealed that the editors of ‘Adelaide Now’ seemed more interested. Also known as ‘Stingers’ and ‘Portuguese Man o’ [...]

The one that got away!

Your average bi-valve spends most of its life partially buried in the seabed, waiting to filter fine particles of food from water currents. A pretty low-key existence, but it’s a living. Whereas the predatory sand snail Polinices sordidus can go right over the top!  They climb onto other molluscs to rasp a perfectly neat hole [...]

Angel Wings – uniquely boring!

If you’re a very slow moving creature, finding a feed while avoiding being eaten would take some pretty quick decisions. “Should I stay or should I go?” just may be your very last thought. So our mollusc mates have developed some pretty amazing survival strategies. But Pholas australiasiae aka Angel Wings takes the prize for [...]

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