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✨ BIOLUMINESCENT PLANKTON ✨ Here you can see dinoflagellates, which are plankton with characteristics of both animals and plants, washing up on a beach and glowing! This blue glow is a result of the dinoflagellates being…

🛸 OCEAN ALIEN 🛸 The Venus Girdle, Cestum veneris, a comb jelly, is the only species of its genus! It’s resembles a ribbon and can grow to be approximately 1m/40in in length and 5cm/2in wide! It has well developed muscu…

Neko Harbor in Antarctica is home to a large colony of Gentoo penguins that can be seen waddling around the snow-covered landscape. The remote location provides a stunning backdrop of a scenic glacier and pristine white…

Though fish form the main part of the kingfisher’s diet, it also eats many aquatic insects, ranging from dragonfly nymphs to water beetles. National Geographic

Say hello to the wunderpus! Amazingly, this species of octopus was not discovered until the 1980s and not officially described until the early 2000s! Even today, it is often confused with its cousin, the mimic octopus. N…