Wearing of the Green

Green Tree Frog – Audubon Society Aquarium of the Americas
New Orleans, Louisiana (April 2003)

Sea Pen

Alaska Sealife Center, Seward (August 2010)

The Words:
Sea Pens are named for their resemblance to old fashioned quill pens.  These beautiful animals are
covered with hundreds of feeding polyps.  When they retract into the sand for defense, they expel the
water from their body and shrink to a much smaller size.