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😲Manatees
Manatees are members of a genus of large aquatic mammals that are grouped into the family Trichechidae (manatees), the sirenian order. In nature, there are 3 species of manatees and one possible: Amazonian, American, African and dwarf. Another name for manatee is sea cow.
Sea lemon clam 🍋
A slug, but one that lives in salt waters. Scientific name: Doris pseudoargus. The translation of the second word coincides with the popular name “lemon”. However, it has not yet become popular. So far, few people except specialists know about the animal.
⭐️A starfish resting on the coast of the Indian Ocean.⭐️
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🤓Humpback whale 🐳
A species of marine mammals of the minke whale family, part of the order baleen whales.
Did you know these facts about humpback whales?
- Average life expectancy is 40-50 years
- Humpback whales can sing. During the mating season, the "singing" sounds evolve every year and are even passed down through generations.
- The love aria of a humpback whale can last a whole day.
🧐Sea ducks 🦆
Relatives of sea acorns. They are distinguished by the presence of a fairly long stalk with which the animal is attached to the substrate, a larger size of the calcareous shell (up to 5 cm) and a more bizarre coloring.
🥰Melibe leonina
A type of marine mollusk. These creatures are excellent hunters thanks to their transparent body and wide mouth with large tentacle-like teeth.
Surprisingly, this animal emits a pleasant floral aroma when taken out of the water.
😊Humpback whales use bubble “nets” to hunt 🐳
The animals surround their prey - usually salmon, herring or krill - and begin to blow air bubbles, which drive the fish into a tight circle from which it is no longer able to escape.
Titicaca whistler Telmatobius culeus is a tailless amphibian endemic to Lake Titicaca on the border of Peru and Bolivia (about 3800 m above sea level). Inhabits warm coastal areas of lakes, where temperatures exceed +10°.
Lives in relatively cold water with plenty of oxygen, as a result has a low metabolic rate, and small lungs indicate that most respiration occurs through the skin. Typically, this frog does not use its vestigial lungs.
Let's remember why amphibians acquired lungs in the first place? Correctly, to compensate for the lack of oxygen in water with atmospheric air. But here’s the catch: at an altitude of 3800 meters the air is very thin! Where can I use the lungs...
Since the amphibian breathes through its skin, it needed as much of this skin as possible. Therefore, the animal turned from a frog into a sharpei and acquired a bunch of folds.
This frog is about 15 cm long. For some reason, evil people also call it a zombie frog...
Bladderwort Utricularia is an aquatic insectivorous plant, devoid of roots and bearing trapping vesicles. Each bubble is equipped with a hole, closed by a valve that opens inward, as a result of which small aquatic animals can freely penetrate into the bubble, but cannot swim back out. When they die, they serve as food for the plant.
In 2011, researchers from France and Germany recognized bladderwort as the fastest predatory plant in the world: prey is drawn into a trap in less than a millisecond.
Pemphigus is distributed throughout the world, being absent only in Antarctica and a number of oceanic islands.
The plant overwinters in the form of spherical buds. In favorable conditions at home, it can stop feeding on living organisms and begin to develop a root system, in what!
The purple tremoctopus, also known as the soaring octopus Tremoctopus violaceus, is a fascinating sight! It is also called a carpet octopus or a blanket octopus - depending on what exactly the thin multi-colored membrane between the outstretched tentacles reminds the observer.
In this way, the octopus tries to appear larger and scares away predators. Only female carpet octopuses have a beautiful outfit; males do not need it - after all, they do not grow more than three centimeters, but females reach a meter in length, and together with the bedspread - two meters.
Having no veil and impressive size, male violet tremoctopus are insensitive to the venom of one of the most dangerous jellyfish, the Portuguese man-of-war. That is why they, holding with suction cups, carry with them pieces of the burning tentacles of poisonous jellyfish and, if necessary, fearlessly attack the enemy with them, like a sword. The venom of jellyfish is very strong, it kills fish in seconds!
Here you can see two female Tremoctopus violaceus taken by a diver in the Philippine Islands area
The leafy sea dragon is a type of charismatic sea creature belonging to the genus Phycodurus.
Externally, the leafy sea dragon resembles a dragon: it has a curved body and thin processes on which flat fins grow.
It needs these fins to move and camouflage itself with its environment.
The dragon moves only with the help of two of them: the chest and the back. But thanks to its fins, it can reach speeds of up to 150 m/h.
Maori wrasse or known as Napoleon fish🐟🐡🐠
This underwater inhabitant can reach impressive sizes - length up to two meters and weight up to 200 kg. Its appearance attracts attention: the colors resemble the luxurious patterns of Iranian porcelain.🧊💎😊
Lives in the waters of the Indian and Pacific oceans.
🌊 One of the most ancient creatures of our planet, a sea creature known as the sunfish, continues to amaze scientists, having inhabited the World Ocean for over 100 million years.🐡🌞🐟🦈🌐
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✨ Mesmerizing beauty
How a documentary film about the underwater world is shown inside a giant spherical screen in Las Vegas.
🙂Orca 🐋
The killer whale belongs to the dolphin family and is considered a predatory mammal that inhabits almost the entire water area of the World Ocean.
Interesting facts about killer whales
- Killer whales never attack people first. Perhaps such attacks were not recorded because people do not swim in the waters where killer whales live.
- Female killer whales live on average 10-15 years longer than males.
🎣The traditional ancient practice of stilt fishing continues to live on the southern shores of Sri Lanka.🌍✨💧
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💙 Dwarf sea hare
The nervous system of a sea hare consists of only 20,000 nerve cells. They are so large that they can be seen with the naked eye.
The tube fan worm Sabellastarte spectabilis is also nicknamed the vacuum cleaner worm for its ability to remove organic particles and improve water quality, for which it is adored by aquarists.
In the wild, this worm previously lived only in the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea, but currently it is also found on the coasts of Africa, Mozambique and the Gulf of Mexico.
This large worm can reach 80 mm in length and 10–12 mm in width. It lives in a hard, leathery tube from which protrudes a gill crown of branched tentacles forming a train.
The cilia on the tentacles catch organic particles as they swim by and guide them along mucus-filled grooves towards the mouth. Tentacles are also used as gills for gas exchange
The pygmy seahorse Hippocampus bargibanti does not exceed 2 cm in length. It lives in the Central Indo-Pacific region exclusively on fan corals. There are two known color options for the skate: gray with red tubercles and yellow with orange tubercles.
Found in the waters of Australia (including the Great Barrier Reef), Indonesia, Japan, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands and Taiwan. Lives at depths from 5 to 40 meters.
In 1969, naturalist George Bargibant, living in New Caledonia, was collecting gorgonian corals for an aquarium and discovered that one of the branches was moving. It turned out to be a tiny seahorse. The new species received the Latin specific name bargibanti in honor of its discoverer
Nautilus Pompilius Nautilus pompilius - yes, yes, the same one! Unless he sings.
But this cephalopod can, by adjusting the amount of ammonia ions in the chambers of the shell, sink or rise - the principle that is used in modern submarines was invented by him hundreds of millions of years ago.
Most modern cephalopods lack shells and have elongated bodies with a small number of cephalic tentacles. At the same time, in the Paleozoic, hundreds of millions of years ago, ammonites and nautiloids flourished, with well-developed external shells and numerous tentacles.
The dominant ammonites in past geological epochs became completely extinct, but a small number of nautiloid species managed to survive and persist in the tropical regions of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. For this reason, nautilus, along with coelacanths, horseshoe crabs and some other species, are called “living fossils.”
Ancient nautiluses grew up to 3.5 m, but today's ones only grow up to 25 cm - but thanks for the fact that they survived!
Dancing with sharks🙈🦈
Who would have thought - but this is reality, now I believe in it! 🦈🏊♀️🏊🏆
😉 The fascinating world of Bigfin reef squid eggs
These eggs, filled with developing squid, display an incredible ballet of movement underwater. These elusive creatures live in the Indo-Pacific region.