58. In a Bryozoan

A few years ago I headed a post with a photo by David Liittschwager, showing all the life teeming in a tiny scoop of sea water. I was reminded of the shot during some time spent recently with the object above, which is a bryozoan colony. I looked at it initially because Tom Davis, a biologist who was showing me around part of the Fly Point dive site in Nelson Bay, picked it out to me. On its stems were tiny sea slugs, each no more than a couple of millimeters long. (Tom has evidently had mic...