Chris Mah
@echinoblog.bsky.social
The "starfish guy"(but also a little about a lot of marine invertebrates, #echinoday #echinoderms. Kaiju, comics enthusiast. Marine scientist, taxonomist, deep-sea researcher. Statements/posts made here are my own & DO NOT REPRESENT HOST organizations
TITANO! Giant crab monster from a 1959 TALES TO ASTONISH! #invertsincomics- original and remastered! ha ha Note the whale for scale! #crabz
November 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
TITANO! Giant crab monster from a 1959 TALES TO ASTONISH! #invertsincomics- original and remastered! ha ha Note the whale for scale! #crabz
Lovely plate patterns from this isocrinid stalked crinoid- NOT a fossil but dang! sure looks like a "living fossil"!! Skeletons are calcium carbonate. #echinoday
November 12, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Lovely plate patterns from this isocrinid stalked crinoid- NOT a fossil but dang! sure looks like a "living fossil"!! Skeletons are calcium carbonate. #echinoday
A rather chonky looking comatulid crinoid aka a feather star showing off the myriad of segments on each arm. THIS is why these are so difficult to ID..because its the pattern of these ossicles that are used to characterize them. ha ha. and sometimes they are fused! #echinoday
November 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
A rather chonky looking comatulid crinoid aka a feather star showing off the myriad of segments on each arm. THIS is why these are so difficult to ID..because its the pattern of these ossicles that are used to characterize them. ha ha. and sometimes they are fused! #echinoday
Also a fair number of mineral specimens on sale! Bismuth I think?
November 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Also a fair number of mineral specimens on sale! Bismuth I think?
A 2015 visit to Japan, included attending Wonderfest! which was mostly toys-but there were SO MANY natural history figures and pieces of art! Here were some delightful crabs and "horseshoe" crabs! #crabz
November 12, 2025 at 3:46 PM
A 2015 visit to Japan, included attending Wonderfest! which was mostly toys-but there were SO MANY natural history figures and pieces of art! Here were some delightful crabs and "horseshoe" crabs! #crabz
Ha ha. I'm one of only 2 people I know who was SO excited to get a picture with a Ginormous TAPEWORM at the world famous Meguro Parasitological Museum! #wormwednesday
November 12, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Ha ha. I'm one of only 2 people I know who was SO excited to get a picture with a Ginormous TAPEWORM at the world famous Meguro Parasitological Museum! #wormwednesday
Ha ha. Remembering my visit to Tokyo in 2014! Shrimp chips with ACTUAL shrimp on them!
November 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Ha ha. Remembering my visit to Tokyo in 2014! Shrimp chips with ACTUAL shrimp on them!
and of course, there's the giant monster Aurelia jellies! #worldjellyfishday #invertsincomics!
November 3, 2025 at 7:48 PM
and of course, there's the giant monster Aurelia jellies! #worldjellyfishday #invertsincomics!
Older Japanese science fiction/cryptozoology books had interesting ideas about where a Giant Jellyfish Monster could go and what it could do! 😂 #invertsincomics
November 3, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Older Japanese science fiction/cryptozoology books had interesting ideas about where a Giant Jellyfish Monster could go and what it could do! 😂 #invertsincomics
Here's a shot from #Okeanos in 2019 off MIami, tropical Atlantic showing a carnivorous sponge Chondrocladia being devoured by Henricia antillarum! Same kind of sponge recently discovered by @oceancensus.bsky.social recent expedition! In the #deepsea there's always someone eating someone!
October 31, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Here's a shot from #Okeanos in 2019 off MIami, tropical Atlantic showing a carnivorous sponge Chondrocladia being devoured by Henricia antillarum! Same kind of sponge recently discovered by @oceancensus.bsky.social recent expedition! In the #deepsea there's always someone eating someone!
Described in 2021-but collected in 2011! Described by @drtimohara.bsky.social OPHIOJURA an eight armed amazing brittle star from the South Pacific #halloween theconversation.com/this-deep-se...
October 31, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Described in 2021-but collected in 2011! Described by @drtimohara.bsky.social OPHIOJURA an eight armed amazing brittle star from the South Pacific #halloween theconversation.com/this-deep-se...
A monstrous sized brittle star called Bathypectinura heros! From Australia but found all throught the world! #deepsea #echinoday Halloween! Some believe that these capture moving prey! Muahahaha!
October 31, 2025 at 2:10 PM
A monstrous sized brittle star called Bathypectinura heros! From Australia but found all throught the world! #deepsea #echinoday Halloween! Some believe that these capture moving prey! Muahahaha!
Ever wanted to see a closeup on the oral side of a brisingid? This is Brisingaster, a "shallow" deep-sea brisingid displaying many spines projecting into mouth! Spines capture small critters with little bear traps called pedicellariae and tube feet convey to EAT! #echinoday Halloween!
October 31, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Ever wanted to see a closeup on the oral side of a brisingid? This is Brisingaster, a "shallow" deep-sea brisingid displaying many spines projecting into mouth! Spines capture small critters with little bear traps called pedicellariae and tube feet convey to EAT! #echinoday Halloween!
TEETH from a basket star called Astrocyclus! #echinoday #halloween
October 31, 2025 at 1:59 PM
TEETH from a basket star called Astrocyclus! #echinoday #halloween
A very Lovecraftian soft coral for #octocoralFriday Halloween edition! From いほやきゅ @K0TSU_K0TSU at the other place!
October 31, 2025 at 1:52 PM
A very Lovecraftian soft coral for #octocoralFriday Halloween edition! From いほやきゅ @K0TSU_K0TSU at the other place!
..and of course the Japanese have some kind of tokusatsu monster based on a Dorid Nudibranch! #seaslugday #invertsincomics
October 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
..and of course the Japanese have some kind of tokusatsu monster based on a Dorid Nudibranch! #seaslugday #invertsincomics
A #seaslugday post about nudibranch FEEDING echinoblog.blogspot.com/2016/10/seas...
October 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
A #seaslugday post about nudibranch FEEDING echinoblog.blogspot.com/2016/10/seas...
OH NEAT! I love this story- A nudibranch that PREYS ON FISH! (gobies) Gymnodoris nigricolor WITH VIDEO #seaslugday from @blennywatcher.bsky.social www.blennywatcher.com/2014/02/22/n...
October 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
OH NEAT! I love this story- A nudibranch that PREYS ON FISH! (gobies) Gymnodoris nigricolor WITH VIDEO #seaslugday from @blennywatcher.bsky.social www.blennywatcher.com/2014/02/22/n...
YOW. #SEASLUGDAY was established in 2015-that makes it TEN YEARS since I set this gastropod in motion! Yikes! echinoblog.blogspot.com/2015/10/octo...
October 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
YOW. #SEASLUGDAY was established in 2015-that makes it TEN YEARS since I set this gastropod in motion! Yikes! echinoblog.blogspot.com/2015/10/octo...
oh NEAT! LIVING lingulid aka stalked BRACHIOPOD from Japan! Via @Crinoidea_hk from the other place #fossilfriday #pedicle
October 27, 2025 at 7:04 PM
oh NEAT! LIVING lingulid aka stalked BRACHIOPOD from Japan! Via @Crinoidea_hk from the other place #fossilfriday #pedicle
A gorgeous beast, Amphiophiura laudata, LOVE the disk plates! from the Coral Sea Marine Park! via @drtimohara.bsky.social who is on a CSIRO expedition, photo by Marco Turner! #echinoday
October 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
A gorgeous beast, Amphiophiura laudata, LOVE the disk plates! from the Coral Sea Marine Park! via @drtimohara.bsky.social who is on a CSIRO expedition, photo by Marco Turner! #echinoday
HA! Crustaceans Against Tyranny! via Moe's Books in Berkeley FB www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...
October 20, 2025 at 7:32 PM
HA! Crustaceans Against Tyranny! via Moe's Books in Berkeley FB www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...
Japanese Urchin POOP! Wow. SO ROUND! via @Crinoidea_hk on the other place #echinoday
October 20, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Japanese Urchin POOP! Wow. SO ROUND! via @Crinoidea_hk on the other place #echinoday
From my recent trip to Alaska- a cool OCTOPUS vodka! #octopusday #worldoctopusday
October 9, 2025 at 4:12 AM
From my recent trip to Alaska- a cool OCTOPUS vodka! #octopusday #worldoctopusday
I have over the years accumulated pix of various octopus themed samurai helmets! the black one is 19th Century and the others are I believe 17th and 18th Edo era #octopusday #worldoctopusday
October 9, 2025 at 3:58 AM
I have over the years accumulated pix of various octopus themed samurai helmets! the black one is 19th Century and the others are I believe 17th and 18th Edo era #octopusday #worldoctopusday