Dive Into Your Imagination

Spinner Dolphins also know scientifically as Stenella longirostris are amazing creatures! They can pull breathtaking acrobatic maneuvers as they fly throught the air and spin around there axis. These dolphins can be found in deeper tropical waters around the world.

Electric rays are elasmobranches and in the same family as sharks. Touch your nose. Touch your ears. Touch your nose and ears and wiggle them. What is different between your nose and your fingers and toes? You have bones in your body that make your skeleton, but sharks and rays are made of cartilage, the same thing that makes up your ears and your nose! The electric ray is a special elasmobranchii because it has a pair of organs capable of zapping electricity to kill or stun prey!

Lionfish are not named because of the ROAR they make, they are called lionfish because their fins look like a lions main, and they are predators that hunt and stalk their prey! They are skilled hunters and will either hide on the reef waiting for an unsuspecting fish to pass by, or they will “herd” fish up on a reef and pick them off one by one, often sucking them up and swallowing them whole!

Nudibranch means naked gills in Latin and Greek! Stomach footed animals, they walk around on their stomach all day looking for food! They have tentacles on top of their head and can smell, touch and taste using these. Rinophores are on top of their heads that they detect odors with.

Fish use sight, smell, sound and feeling with their lateral lines to stay together, they find safety in numbers!

Mantis shrimp look like they could have landed from outer space with their three-pupil eyes and raptorial appendages that are their secret weapons for killing prey, sometimes in a single blow!

Check out their eyes! When you watch the video, notice that on each stalk, their eyes move about independently of one another. It is believed they can see from ultra-violet light to infra red and their eyes are considered to be the most complex in the animal kingdom.


 

Everyone imagines rainforests on land as an important ecosystem, yet off the coasts of North and South America, Australia and Europe grows Giant Kelp Forests, some of the most diverse and productive ecosystems in the world! Kelp Forests are an ocean habitat that is a nursery ground for juvenile fish and home to sea otters, crabs, lobsters and other invertebrates. Schooling fish find shelter within these underwater forests.  Check out the video to learn more!

Hairy frogfish. You read that correctly, a fish with hair. Check this out, frogfish are in the angler fish family and they have this appendage attached to their head called an esca. They throw out their esca trying to lure other fish close to its mouth. They fish for fish. They have a fishing pole attached to their head with a lure! Watch these funny creatures here!