Life at the end of the Earth: the weird and wonderful adaptations of Antarctic marine animals – Prof Lloyd Peck

Speaker:Prof Lloyd Peck FRS BAS

Life in the seas around Antarctica is unexpectedly abundant and diverse. It contains unique biological attributes like giant sea spiders, worms and sponges, and the only animals with backbones that do not possess red blood cells.  It also contains probably the slowest biology anywhere with some snail species taking up to 10 years to develop from fertilised eggs to hatching juveniles. This talk will describe the biodiversity, the adaptations and the constraints that have produced these unique biologys. It will also discuss some of the exciting new research that is giving us new insights into how life thrives at sub-zero temperatures.

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