A fish is drinking water!!!
Actually, it’s a whale shark filtering sea water for plankton.
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Arguably one of the coolest looking nudibranchs is the Phyllodesmium iriomotense, an aeolid nudibranch native to Japan and Indonesia. It feeds on soft corals and gets to be about 2cm long. While it is small, it definitely seems like some alien one would find on an ice-planet!
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Beautiful Mola Mola (or Ocean Sunfish)! They are the largest bony fish in the world, and can weigh up to 1,000 kg. They are extremely docile and amazing creatures to dive with.
The Angelshark (Squatina squatina) typifies the fish most at risk of extinction: it grows to a large size and is cartilaginous, so it has characteristics which make it less resilient. Once common throughout Europe, it is now only found in the Canary Islands.
Flashy and fierce, cute and cuttle-y, bold and boisterous—flamboyant cuttlefish are fantastic creatures.
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So many seadragons! Leafy and weedy seadragons are masters of camouflage. Good thing, too, because they’re pretty slow swimmers. Can you count how many seadragons are in this picture?
Excellent camo job, leafy sea dragons!
The Fried-Egg Nudibranch (Chromodoris annulata) has interesting colouration and an equally interesting (yet fitting) name. Growing to be 10cm long, this slug naturally lives in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean, as well as the East Coast of South Africa to Thailand. However, because of the Suez Canal the nudibranch is an invasive species in the Mediterranean Sea.
The vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis, lit. “vampire squid from Hell”) is a small, deep-sea cephalopod found throughout the temperate and tropical oceans of the world. Unique retractile sensory filaments justify the vampire squid’s placement in its own order, Vampyromorphida, which shares similarities with both squid and octopodes.
Like many deep-sea cephalopods, the vampire squid lacks ink sacs. If disturbed, it will curl its arms up outwards and wrap them around its body, exposing its spiny projections on the insides of its arms. If highly agitated, it may eject a sticky cloud of bioluminescent mucus containing innumerable orbs of blue light from the arm tips. This luminous barrage, which may last nearly 10 minutes, would presumably serve to daze would-be predators and allow the vampire squid to disappear into the blackness without the need to swim far.
Weird Fact of the Day:
Hammerhead sharks are born with soft heads, so that they don’t get stuck in their mother’s birth canal.
Female hammerheads usually give birth to around 15 pups per litter, with the exception of the great hammerhead shark, which can give birth to 20-40.Follow http://bitch-dont-krill-my-vibe.tumblr.com for more
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