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Research staff at Â鶹¾«Æ·ÊÓƵ’s Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute recently captured a rare glimpse of milk conch (Macrostrombus costatus) development via a 15-hour time-lapse video. The eggs are very tiny, smaller than a grain of sand.

The egg mass was laid by milk conch broodstock that are at Â鶹¾«Æ·ÊÓƵHarbor Branch. The broodstock are part of a Builders Initiative grant project awarded to the Queen Conch Lab at Â鶹¾«Æ·ÊÓƵHarbor Branch and are cared for by research coordinator Amanda Matthews. The video was taken by Alyson Chin using a dissecting microscope.