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Day: May 20, 2018

Things strange and beautiful

Posted on 2018-05-202023-01-06 by Allison J. Gong

This weekend I was supposed to take a photographer and his assistant into the field to hunt for staurozoans. I mean a real photographer, one who has worked for National Geographic. He also wrote the book One Cubic Foot. You may have heard of the guy. His name is David Liittschwager. Anyway, his assistant contacted…

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