Mariposas Marinas
Would you like to learn (or teach) about some of the most charismatic microfauna in the ocean?
Mariposas Marinas is an illustrated children's book about sea butterflies. It is bilingual (Spanish-English) and written at a third-grade reading level. However, it is designed to be accessible to adults and children of all ages.
In this book, we describe these beautiful and fascinating zooplankton. We also introduce the idea of bioinspiration in engineering and explore the many different kinds of questions you can ask about the ocean.
In addition to being featured in over one hundred national and international media outlets, Dr. Murphy's sea butterfly swimming research has also appeared in The New York Times and on the YouTube channel Scishow (with over 6 million subscribers).