The ocean is full with strange and beautiful creatures. Pineapple fish is one of them. The fish is also known as pinecone fish and knight fish or court-of-the-mail fish. Yes, you guessed it right, the fish has large, armor like scales. It looks like a ripe pineapple with fins.
Atlantic ghost crabs are the only species of the ghost crabs that lives in the Atlantic Ocean shore of the United States. They got the title "ghost" because of their nocturnal nature. These crabs live in the burrows in the sea shore sands during the day time. They comes out searching for food during the night. One of their most prominent food source is baby turtles and also turtle eggs.
Bluebell tunicates are one of the most weird looking creatures that lives under the ocean. They are also known as Blue Sea Squirt. Scientists call it as Clavelina moluccensis. The genus name "Clavelina" means "little bottle". From the photos you can clearly see that these creatures resembles plastic bottles. There are 47 types of Clavelina tunicates. The bluebell tunicate is one of the most common and well known among the group.
The future is here at last ! The scientists have made a robotic stingray that is powered by the heart cells of a rat ! It is a bio-mechanical robot. They have used gold with animal tissue to build their hybrid.
Tiger sharks are counted among the bigger fishes. They need a considerable amount of food to survive. These sharks can grow up to 18 ft, but the average body length is limited to 12-14 ft. Still, it is a big size especially if we count the average body weight of 100 lb.
If you are a lonely traveler visiting the ice covered Arctic Ocean, you may look at one of the strangest creations of nature – frost flowers. You will see the icy cold waters of the ocean are full with floating white flowers made of frost. Very few people were lucky enough to see these strange phenomena because these areas are not that suitable to live for common people.
They have taken the controversial rout of “direct action”. They said enough is enough; no preaching is not going to change the heart of the heartless whalers. So, the anti-whaling activists of “Sea Shepherd” have built a custom war ship to fight off the killers.
A resolution in 1986 by the International Whaling Commission (IWC) has banned killing whales for “commercial profit”. There are loopholes in that resolution which allows whalers from Iceland, Japan, and Norway etc kill whales. The Japanese do it for “research”.
By shark, we all remember the demonic attacker from the blue ocean in the Spielberg's movie. For most people, the great white shark is the roll model of a shark. But all sharks do not look just like that. There are more than 500 species of sharks recorded so far. It is possible that some more new species could be discovered soon from the depths of the oceans.
Here we are going to show you some of the cool shark species that are unknown to most people. Yes, if you are a nature lover or a shark fan or a geek you may know most of them. But I still hope to surprise you all with this collection.
Jellyfish is an invertebrate that lives in the oceans. It can be seen almost every parts of the oceans. You have seen them in the seas, but do you know what they eat?
Jellyfish is a carnivore. Carnivores are the animals that are hunters. Yes, these sea creatures are not vegetarians. They are active predators of the sea.
There are thousands of species of jellyfishes. They have different body sizes. There habitation is also different. That’s why there can be some difference between the foods taken by each species.
