Birch Aquarium

I’m in Southern California for work this week.

The aquarium at Scripps is doing some kind of Easter-related promotion.  In the entryway there was a table with trays of various underwater eggs, including these hilariously-shaped shark eggs.  (The table has a multicolored tablecloth, so the backgrounds of these photos are a bit distracting.)

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I can’t imagine what purpose these shapes can serve.

They also had several strings of squid eggs (a plaque claims that rafts of squid eggs are often ‘as big as a two-car garage.’)  There were also freshly-hatched baby squid — they didn’t look like much in person, but zoomed in a bit one of the photos I took looks pretty good.

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The rest of these pictures should be self-explanatory.

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