Aquarium Animals featured in the Seymour Center aquarium are chosen because they elicit questions a scientist might ask. Scientists look at these strange phenomena and ask the same questions we might. Then they get busy answering the question. The aquarium exhibits look like a working marine laboratory with exposed seawater pipes and valves. Many of the tanks are laboratory-like, not habitat tanks.
Scientists like to keep their animals visible so they can focus on a certain characteristic.
Right now the tank is home to a basket star. Other times of the year the tank houses squid eggs, juvenile rockfish, sea hares, or other remarkable animals. See up-close each animal's specialized characteristics in the aquarium tanks. Sculpins use a homing behavior to find their home pools when the tide goes out. Come to the Seymour Center and ask some questions.