Young whale shark (Rhincodon typus), filter feeding near snorkeler at El Mogote, Baja California Sur, Mexico, North America
Young whale shark (Rhincodon typus), being biopsied by researcher at El Mogote, Baja California Sur, Mexico, North America
Researcher Stephanie Martin takes a blubber biopsy using an arrow fired from a crossbow of an adult blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus), South Orkney islands, Antarctica, Southern Ocean
Mammotome.
Positioning for a macrobiopsy.
Mammotome
At the Center of Marine Biotechnology, Baltimore MD Yohan Zohar holds a female sponge blue crab and takes a biopsy of embryos. One female can give up to 3 million embryos.