creatures

“And as an animal lover, I cannot support the widespread slaughter of these beautiful creatures.”

Still, Shimada’s findings on how giant sea animals’ size affect their speed could help us better understand the evolution of large sea creatures today.

Her obsession with space and space creatures finds its lineage in some pots she shows from a book of her work.

She says the sought-after polymetallic nodules are themselves home to some creatures, which use them as a substrate.

We gawked at the sea creatures — lobsters, soft-shell turtles, wriggling live eels — while she filled the cart.