Fashion-Forward Crab Wears a Friend
This homolid crab is making its way across the substrate with an anemone on its back! Check out this unique trendsetter and marvel in some of the deep sea’s most interesting crustacean behavior. Scientists speculate that the critters may have some type of as-yet-undefined symbiotic relationship.
Learn more about this expedition in and around the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument funded by NOAA Ocean Exploration via the Ocean Exploration Cooperative Institute.
Kingman Reef & Palmyra Atoll
The deep-water areas around Kingman Reef and Palmyra Atoll are within one of the largest marine protected areas in the world, the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument (PRIMNM). Despite a growing number of expeditions to explore deep-sea environments of the PRIMNM, including a 2019 Nautilus expedition, many areas remain unexplored.
