At Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory, you get a better sense of the enormous diversity of life on earth. Water bubbles and flows in a swirl that sustains our unique collection of the bizarre and the beautiful.
Seahorses hide in the seaweed, their black and bronze hads dusted with gold flecks.
Starfish glide effrtlessly over the sand and sometimes an octopus will come out of its burrow. Red hermit crabs with bright blue eyes carry waving sea anemones on their shells. Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory has been in the business of supplying marine animals and developing specialized aquarium systems for more than 25 years. The marine biological supply division supports the laboratory, provides a constant flow of animals coming through the lab, and creates an exhibit that is constantly changing. A variety of invertebrates, fishes and algae are routinely collected and sold to schools and laboratories.