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 collections of the bizarre and the beautiful.
Seahorses hide in the seaweed, their black and bronze heads dusted with gold flecks.
Starfish glide effortlessly 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. Together with animals that look like plants and plants unlike any on land, they challenge our concepts of what it means to be an animal, what it means to be alive. Becoming a member and lending financial support enables us to improve our seawater systems, aquaria and vessels. This helps us bring healthier, better adapted marine animals into your laboratory and classrooms.