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🐟Piranhas prefer warm climates, so you will never find them in freezing reservoirs.
Even crocodiles are afraid of piranhas, so they swim above their flock with their vulnerable belly, exposing their armored back to the fish.
😄Dumbo the long-eared octopus is a deep-sea inhabitant
The main means of transportation are its limbs or legs, 8 in number. Despite all its “cuteness,” it is a formidable predator and can develop great speed in catching prey. Quickly escapes from predators of sharks and killer whales.
The octopus envelops its prey with its legs and swallows it whole, even though the size of an adult does not exceed 20 cm. It feeds on worms, crustaceans, and mollusks.
Sea dragons exist! 🐉
In fact, this is one of the unusual and impressive species of nudibranchs.
Why do dolphins jump out of the water? 🤔
Using the developed mathematical model of dolphin movement and the subsequent analysis of their behavior, the animals jump out of the water in order to increase the speed of movement.
Razor fish 🪒
It is distributed in the Indian and western Pacific Ocean: from the coast of Tanzania and the Seychelles to Japan and northern Australia.
Razor fish, characterized by a body compressed on the sides, laid in a bony shell, with a knife-sharp lower edge.
This is what the "Christmas Tree" of the underwater world looks
like. Spirobranchus giganteus lives in the seas of the World Ocean – a species of polychaete worms, bizarrely similar to Christmas trees.
Their multicolored tentacles, coiled in spirals, resemble coniferous twigs, while the animals themselves can be almost any color.
The herring king is a marine fish from the remnetel family 👑
The herring king is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest living bony fish. The largest recorded specimen reached a length of 11 m.
Medusa Cassiopeia andromeda 🪼
This jellyfish is of medium size. The cluster of Cassiopeia Andromeda can be seen in shallow waters, in bays and lagoons protected from waves. Their yellow-brown dome with white spots, facing upwards, gently pulsates, creating ascending streams of water.
Piraputanga 🐟
Piraputanga (Brycon microlepis) – can reach up to 50 cm long and weigh 3 kg. It feeds on small fish or pieces of fish, fruits, if they fall into the water, it can jump out of the water and pluck fruits hanging over the water from branches.
The sea spider 🕷
Giant sea spiders live in the polar Arctic and the Southern Ocean, some of them exceed 30 cm in length.
Experts suggest that perhaps sea spiders grow to such sizes because of "polar gigantism", a rather mysterious phenomenon that has not yet been fully studied.
An unusual sponge harp 🧽
It is a mysterious marine predator. It clings to the sediment of the seabed and hunts, gluing small underwater inhabitants to its sticky tips.
Hitchhiking is developed not only on land 🚗
While diving in the Monterey Bay off the coast of California, small crabs can often be seen sitting on their backs or clinging to the bellies of sea cucumbers, moving with them.
A savory snack 🪼
Moon jellyfish bloom in early spring in the Red Sea and during this period serve as an important food source for sea turtles, reef fish and many other species.
Fan corals 🪸
Elegant structure, considerable size and different shades of color from white and yellow to dark red and purple.
Wow! Hugs of whales 😍
This is the first time I've seen it.
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Red - breasted paku 🐟
A tropical fish from the piranha subfamily found in the Amazon basin.
It feeds on small fish, nuts, acorns and seeds. And she needs strong, almost human teeth and strong jaws in order to crack snails.
The Giant Goliath 🐟
Goliath fish (Latin: Hydrocynus goliath) or large tiger fish is one of the most unusual freshwater fish, a real river monster.
Look at what unusual extraterrestrial forms this fish has - a Black humpback.
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Zebra shark, meet me! 🦈
The only species of the zebra shark family. Easily recognizable due to its mottled coloring, long tail.
It is distributed in tropical and subtropical waters of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, sometimes found in the southern part of the Sea of Japan.
Marine pelagic fish gather in massive flocks 🐟
Pelagic fish are fish that live in the pelagic zone of oceans or lakes, as opposed to those living at the bottom or near the bottom of bottom and reef fish associated with the coastal zone.
The cutest video of the day 🥰
Killer whales are social creatures. They prefer to coexist in small groups connected by family ties. However, sometimes the number of killer whale groups can reach forty to fifty individuals.
Tulle apogee 🐠
It lives on the coast of the Banggai Islands east of the central part of the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia, in the western Pacific Ocean.
The underwater world of the Philippines 🇵🇭
The Philippines is a great place for diving, because there are a lot of islands here, and the water temperature is about 27 to 30 degrees all year round, and this all makes the islands of the Philippines very attractive for divers who want to see the beautiful and so different underwater world.
Architect fish, or white-spotted blowfish 🐡
They are the only ones in their family engaged in the construction of complex sand structures.
They clear the selected place of various debris, take out twigs, shells and extra stones.
These are Opisthognathaceae, a family of ray–finned fish. Their males carry eggs in their mouths.
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What do these crabs do? 🦀
It is believed that by rolling balls, crabs make a fence or protection for their house.
In fact, crabs suck out microparticles of food from the sand, like all sorts of small pieces of algae and thereby roll it into balls.
The subtleties of nature never cease to amaze 🦀
Take a close look at the complexity and accuracy of this reef crab during feeding.