The last new moon, Mandy Etpison, the founder of Manta ID Palau Project to update the manta database. Twelve mantas were seen feeding at German Channel, 2 of which are newly identified female Mantas. Manta ID Palau Project, with sponsorship from NECO Marine, builds a database to collect information on Palau’s individual mantas and shares what…
Month: November 2012
Nautilus Dive with Neco Marine
This cephalopod looks like an octopus but has a large beautiful shell like a snail. They are thought to have remained almost unchanged for 400 million years and represent the last survivors of a group that in past geological eras was very abundant. The endemic species found in Palau is called Nautilus Belauensis and lives…