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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Meet Hippocampus nalu, new Pygmy Seahorse from South Africa

Extremely cryptic and always cute, Pygmy Seahorses are very popular among scuba divers and underwater photographers. First of them, Hippocampus bargibanti was described in 1970 and until 2003 remained alone,…

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Crown of Thorns: the frightening beauty

Acanthaster planci (Crown of Thorns) juvenile, 1.5 cm. First of all about the beauty: Crown of Thorns juveniles are really handsome in their own spiky-snowflake way. They develop spines and…

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