Red Sea macro discoveries: marine worms

Have you seen a sponge peppered with small dark dots, as it seems from a distance of 1-2 m? Getting closer we see them moving, then we understand it is…

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Giant Moray and its Brave dentist

Giant Moray and Common Cleanerfish The job of a dentist cleaning teeth only seems dangerous in this case. A moray eel will never offend its Cleaner Wrasse. Cleaner Wrasse eats…

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Amazing crustaceans – Shrimp living with Worm

The beauty and the Beast? World of crustaceans is extremely diverse! Did you know that some Snapping Shrimps can share burrows with Spoon Worms? Alpheus barbatus is one of the…

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Some animals can chop off their own heads!

DID YOU KNOW that Elysia marginata is capable of decapitating itself when its body becomes infected with parasites? Sounds fantastic, but it’s true! What's even more bizarre, the head gets…

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5 facts you didn’t know about pygmy seahorses.

Hippocampus bargibanti All seahorses, including pygmies, are part of the family Syngnathidae. Ever since they were first discovered in 1969, pygmy seahorses have become stars of the reef and attract…

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5 facts you didn’t know about Sea hares

Sea hare is any marine gastropod of the family Aplysiidae (subclass Opisthobranchia, phylum Mollusca).Sea hare is characterized by a shell reduced to a flat plate, prominent tentacles (resembling rabbit ears),…

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5 facts you didn’t know about frogfishes.

Latin name of the family is Antennariidae. There are about 47 known species of frogfish worldwide. Fascinating to divers and deadly for its prey, the frogfish is the ocean’s master…

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Unknown facts about well-known scallops

Iridescent Scallop Pedum spondyloideum @Jeanette Johnson Every diver saw these scallops a lot of times. Some of us even tried to photograph them, fascinated by the row of unusual eyes…

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Night Dive Secrets: strange transparent fishes

Night dive in the tropical Indo-Pacific - it is always a possibility to find something new and strange. If you dived a lot after sunset you probably noticed strange transparent…

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