London museum dredges up fascinating creatures from the deep sea

LONDON — A 2-metre-long grouper fish, a giant clam shell and a Hawksbill sea turtle are among the subaqueous delights on display at a new exhibition at the Natural History Museum.

Sea fans, fossils, sponge crabs, a venomous blue-ringed octopus and hundreds of other specimens are also featured as part of "Coral Reefs: Secret Cities of the Sea," which opens Friday at the London museum.

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Running until September 2015, the show also includes a live coral reef and a virtual dive through imagery from the Catlin Seaview Survey, which studies the world's coral reefs. Read more...

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