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Caramel crab
This unique creature has no close relatives, which is why it is considered unique of its kind. Caramel crabs live in the Indian Ocean and the South Pacific. This is a true master of disguise! It can change color to become invisible against the background of a coral reef.
Solmissus jelly
Jellyfish tentacles have tiny stingers called nematocysts that can detach, stick to the skin, and release venom. The amazing thing is that even if the jellyfish is dead, it can still bite you because the cellular structure of the nematocysts remains long after the animal dies.
White spotted catshark 🦈
The species of shark is a genus of Asian cat sharks of the same family of the wobbegong-like order. These sharks live in the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean at depths of up to 18 m.
The maximum recorded size is 95 cm. These sharks have an elongated brown body covered with dark stripes and white spots. The diet consists of bony fish and invertebrates. They reproduce by laying eggs. They get along well in captivity. They are subject to commercial fishing.
😱 Great white pelican
This beak is complemented by an extensive throat pouch that can hold up to 13 liters of water.
Fish Tripod 👻
This is the most deep-sea and bottom-dwelling fish from the Bathipteridae family and looks like a tripod. With length sizes up to 37 centimeters. With long and bony processes up to one meter, which it uses as arms and legs.
🐊 Giant Gharial
Gharials come out of the water only to bask on the banks of rivers. In hot weather, individuals tend to cool down and warm up if the ambient temperature is low.
They prefer to bask in the morning on wet and sandy beaches. They tend to return to the same place, which is always near water.
Dugong
The dugong is the closest relative of the extinct sea cow.
The basis of their diet consists of aquatic plants from the families of pondweeds and aquatic plants, as well as seaweed.
🙄Tactostoma macropus - species of baleen dragons 🐉
A species of baleen dragonfish that lives in the Pacific Ocean at depths of up to 2000 m. This species reaches a length of 34.3 cm. This species is the only known species of the genus Tactostoma.
It's creepy! Isn't it? 🔥
😊Hermit crabs
The most popular harmless sea vagrant who prefers shallow waters is the hermit crab. For self-defense and as a home, he uses a shell, which he constantly carries on his back. It is also one of the natural cleaners of the environment, as it feeds mainly on organic debris.
😍Apogon aureus
It is a small marine fish, 10 to 14.5 centimeters long, found in the Red Sea and tropical Indo-Pacific region from East Africa to the Izu Islands south of Japan, New Guinea, Australia and New Caledonia
😯Jellyfish moon
This is a translucent species of jellyfish that lives in the World Ocean. The species grows from 20 to 30 centimeters in diameter. They are distinguished by exquisite colors. The moon jellyfish uses its tentacles to hunt predatory prey, primarily plankton and other small creatures. This species only lives for a few months, most likely no more than six.
Ray - finned fish 🐀
The most ancient representatives among the fish. Early finds of these fish are more than 40 million years old – it was a predatory large fish of the Silurian period. Most of the fish preferred cold waters, living in Russia, Sweden, and Estonia.
🧐Sea turtles 🐢
They have a compass in their head.
Turtles are sensitive to the Earth's magnetic field because they have built-in GPS thanks to special receptors located in their brains. They can determine their exact location in relation to the Earth's magnetic field, hence the ability to find favorable feeding sites and return back to their original nesting sites (home) to lay eggs in the exact location where they were hatched. This special feature allows turtles to migrate thousands of miles and still find their nesting sites half a century later. This is a mystery that science has yet to fully understand.
😯Saw-fingered stingrays
A family of stingrays from the order Sawtooth. The most noticeable feature is the long flat outgrowth of the snout, framed on the sides by teeth of the same size.
These outgrowths are located in one row on each side and give the snout a saw-like appearance. The "saw" is about a quarter of the body length of saw-tailed rays.
Hell's vampire is a creepy creature
A small deep-sea cephalopod detritivore from the family Vampyroteuthidae, classified into the monotypic genus Vampyroteuthis, living in temperate and tropical waters of the world's oceans.
This is the only cephalopod known to science that spends its entire life at depths of 400-1000 m in an area with a minimum amount of oxygen dissolved in water. Due to the presence of unique retractable sensitive whip-shaped filaments, it is classified into the order of vampiromorphs, which has common features with both squids and octopuses.
Frog fish 😁
Instead of quickly cutting through the water column, the frog fish lies calmly between the stones. Because of such a lazy life, all 40 centimeters of the fish’s body were covered with branched hair. Moreover, long-term unshavenness is not scales, but many leathery outgrowths.
Moray echidna
Despite their formidable reputation, moray eels are usually non-aggressive and only attack in self-defense. They are quite common in marine aquariums, although they require a large volume and are difficult to maintain.
Porcelain crabs 🦀
Decapod crustaceans from the widespread family Porcellanidae, which in appearance resemble real crabs. They have flattened bodies adapted for living in rock crevices. They are fragile, easily lose limbs when attacked, and use their large claws to defend territories.
This beauty needs to be watched with sound 🥰
👉Secrets of the Oceans 🐋
Strawberry squid 🍓
In addition to its ability to protect itself from light and its unusual color, the squid has two dome-shaped eyes of different sizes. One eye is small and blue, and the other is large, green and yellow, and looks a bit like half a lime. The eyes help the squid hunt for prey in the twilight zone of the ocean, where only 1% of sunlight penetrates.
Thousands of pink flamingos on Lake Karakol, Kazakhstan
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😳Himantura fai 🦈
Species of the genus Stingrays from the family Stingrays of the order Stingrays of the superorder Stingrays. They live in the tropical waters of the eastern Indian and western Pacific Oceans.
Interesting facts about stingrays:
- Stingrays pose a great danger to humans. Their poison can easily kill even a physically strong and healthy man.
- Some species of stingrays do not collect prey on the seabed, but actively hunt fish.
😦Predatory marine polychaete worm 🪱
It lives on the ocean floor, at a depth of 10-40 meters, in tropical waters. The length of an adult reaches 2-3 meters. It hunts fish passing by, quickly capturing them and dragging them to itself. A sea worm can go without food for about a year.
🤔Did you know these facts about starfish?
- The size of starfish ranges from 2-100 cm.
- Despite their funny appearance, these animals are predators. The victims of sea stars are mollusks, small fish and snails (see interesting facts about snails).
- On average, starfish live for about 20 years.
- Many species of starfish are cannibals.
- Many varieties of stars are capable of developing quite high speeds.
🙄Marine wonder of the world named Venus' Belt
Belt of Venus is a species of ctenophore from the tentacle class, classified in the monotypic genus Cestum. The largest species of ctenophores can reach a length of up to 2.5 m. Adult ctenophores have a transparent gelatinous, ribbon-shaped body, highly elongated in width and flattened laterally.
😊Water unicorns or narwhals 🦄
The narwhal is similar to the beluga whale not only in the size/shape of the body - both whales have no dorsal fin, identical pectoral fins and... calves (the beluga whale gives birth to dark blue offspring, which turn white as they grow older). An adult narwhal grows up to 4.5 m with a weight of 2–3 tons. Ketologists assure that this is not the limit - if you are lucky, you can get 6-meter specimens.
😑Carminodoris
A genus of sea slugs, nudibranch dorids, and marine gastropods without shells of the family Discodorididae. The genus Carminodoris was originally classified by Berg in 1891 in the subfamily Platydorididae, a subfamily of the family Dorididae.
✊ There is no more heroic act than saving a defenseless animal!
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