Clione limacina kid. The thing is just 5 mm in size. It still has the larval ciliary bands, which will fall off later. The transparent balls under the skin are fat droplets that accumulate as they digest sea butterflies.

In the last couple of weeks, I've been vigorously editing dozens of grant photos that can't be shown yet (until autumn, argh). Suffering because I want to show everything immediately! Well, this season's new images are also coming out awesome.

I miss the warm seas a bit. I've been diving in -2°C water for over a month now, and it's only now the sea is getting warmer, it's already +6. But it's +27°C somewhere and there are fantastic coloured corals all around.

The surface of the starfish Crossaster papposus is something out of this world. I rarely observe this colouration, but if I do, I always take a few photos.

Flying worms | Sea dragons. Huge, up to 40 centimetres long, Alitta virens polychaete worms rise to the surface by the hundreds of thousands to release their eggs and sperm into the water. So yesterday, we were swimming in it all, laughing awkwardly and filming the whole process.

International Polychaete Day? Yes!

Cute!

At the Museum, the exhibition "Mysterious Creatures from the Ocean" could be admired by visitors, with the amazing images from Jeffery Stone & Alexander Semenov! #EuropeanResearchersNight #bluenightstorreira #OceanDecade Universidade Aveiro Jeffery Stone Alexander Semenov

Ctenophore day? Ok! Mertensia ovum floats in the green waters of the White Sea. #ctenophoreday

A huge mouth of Beroe cucumis would also fit in nicely in #CtenophoreDay

Finally got my hands on the photos again! What a joy to clean and handle them.

Cyanea capillata (aka Lion's mane), one of the most beautiful jellyfish in the Arctic. The lion's mane of tentacles have gone a little bald, but the jellyfish still looks amazing.

Coryphella nobilis is one of my favorite nudibranchs. Every time I get excited when I meet these guys with thick, vibrant papillas!

Lucernaria sainthilarei, lovely little stalked jellyfish. They live on muddy parts of the seafloor, clinging to boulders and small rocks. Usually these are places with gentle currents and depths greater than 15-20 meters.

Alitta virens polychaetes flying around. This is their breeding behaviour: for a couple of days a year they float en masse from the bottom to the surface to spawn and release their sexual products into the water. The fertilisation is external, so this is how system works.

SpaceX new booster! Alitta virens polychaete discharging sperm at full speed while the eggs (little dots in the picture) are already floating all around in the vast space of the White sea.

Sea angel - Clione limacina. They can be chubby!

Pink helmet jellyfish - Aglantha digitale. 1cm of lighting fast hydrozoan beauty.

Strange body shape of Bolinopsis infundibulum ctenophore.