Marine invertebrate larvae are incredibly diverse.
Sample of the diversity of animal larval forms. Larvae are not to scale. Photos from the Cifonauta database (Migotto and Vellutini, 2011).
They have all sorts of unique features—tentacles, lobes, bands of cilia, shells, bristle hairs, etc.—which they use to capture food, to swim, to protect themselves from predators.
Their morphology is functional. But also beautiful.
That’s why I was excited to discover these larval stickers made by Dexter Davis:
