Dive Into Your Imagination

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!

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!

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!

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!