Under the Sea

Under the Sea We provide exciting educational presentations using live sea creatures. We travel to sites in VA, M Well we can help answer those questions!

Ever wonder how many eyes a starfish has or if a horseshoe crab is really crab? Under the Sea provides exciting educational programs on the Chesapeake Bay and the world's oceans to students throughout the DC metropolitan region. We travel to schools, libraries, community events and even birthday parties to bring the ocean to you. Please see our website www.touchthesea.org for more information and for our full list of programs and activities

04/12/2026
The most bizarre bivalve in the world! The water-pot clam starts off looking like any other clam, but quickly shifts to ...
04/10/2026

The most bizarre bivalve in the world! The water-pot clam starts off looking like any other clam, but quickly shifts to resemble a hard stick!

Cool Bivalve—Watering Pots (families Clavagellidae and Penicillidae) are bivalve mollusks that make unusual shells: In their early life stages, they look like a tiny clam (thin black line on photo). At one point in their growth, however, their shell-making skills shift and the bivalve starts manufacturing a shelly tube. The early, small bivalve shell stays behind, embedded onto the tube. Watering pots live buried in soft mud, and get their name from the sieve-like structure at the bottom of their tube (top center). The Common Watering Pot, Verpa p***s (Linnaeus, 1767), in the photos was collected in the Philippines. Learn more about mollusks and their shells at https://www.shellmuseum.org/southwest-florida-shells and https://www.shellmuseum.org/blog. (Photos by José H. Leal).

03/11/2026

BEST CAKE EVER!

Can you name other sea creatures that have flown in space?
03/09/2026

Can you name other sea creatures that have flown in space?

Scientists wanted to find out whether humans born in space still retained their sense of gravity. So they turned to baby jellyfish March 6, 2026 If humans were ever able to live in space, how would children born there react to changes in gravity? That’s a question space agency NASA wanted to answe...

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