Stunning microscopic footage has captured the moment a translucent baby sea urchin crawled across a bed of red algae. The video earned fifth place in the annual Nikon Small World in Motion competition.
Alvaro Migotto, a zoologist at the University of São Paulo in Brazil, captured the mesmerizing video of the juvenile sea urchin as it moved across its habitat and identified the species as Arbacia lixula — a black sea urchin that is commonly found along the Brazilian coast and throughout the Mediterranean. Migotto discovered the tiny creature while examining debris that had washed ashore near the Center for Marine Biology where he works.
