I am really fascinating things">fascinated by things that I can not see or touch very often, especially the weird looking and colorful animals that live deep under the sea.
Last weekend we went to a small aquarium by the beach. At the aquarium they had many different animals that I have never seen before. They were awesome. Some were spiny and sharp and others looked as soft, thin and delicate as a silk shirt. So, I looked around the internet to try to find really cool pictures of odd sea creatures, check it out.
Firefly squid, most likely called that because of the neon looking colors on its body
Sea Robbins
This is a really bizarre looking fish called a Blobfish. I found some info about this strange fish. Found at depths where the pressure is several dozens of times higher than at sea level, which would likely make gas bladders inefficient. To remain buoyant, the flesh of the blobfish is primarily a gelatinous mass with a density slightly less than water; this allows the fish to float above the sea floor without expending energy on swimming. The relative lack of muscle is not a disadvantage as it primarily swallows edible matter that
floats by in front it.
A Handfish, maybe named handfish because it looks like a hand?
Here is a gallery with some more very cool sea creatures
A very rare prehistoric shark was found by Japanese fisherman and brought to the Awashima Marine Park last year. Below is the film clip from Awashima Marine Park showing the shark swimming in the tank. This species of shark is supposed to date back millions of years.
The frilled shark looks very much like an eel and has 300 trident-shaped teeth in multiple rows in a very wide mouth. This shark also does not have the shark fin on its back that we always associate with sharks. Even without the usual menacing “Jaws” fin, this shark looks very terrifying.
This frilled shark measured 5.3 feet-long and weighed 16.5 pounds. Not as large as it seems to look in the video.
Frilled sharks normally live in very deep water - between 400 and 4,200 feet and rarely come to the surface. They have been seen near the coast of Japan before, especially during the winter time when the water temperature drops and they have to get to warmer areas to feed.
Frilled sharks can grow to a length of nearly 6.5 feet and eat deep-sea squids and other soft-bodied preys.
About the video..
The staff of a Japanese aquarium took pictures of a rare frilled shark on Sunday, after it was discovered by local residents at Awashima Port in Shizuoka, southwest of Tokyo.
This prehistoric shark is rarely seen alive as its natural habitat lies up to 1,280 metres (4,200 feet) deep under the sea.
Experts at the Awashima Marine Park were able to examine the creature, which was a female, and film it swimming around.
Unfortunately though it died a couple of hours after it was moved to its new environment.
I love animals, so I started on a great collection of animal pictures and photos. Many are large enough to be set as wallpaper because they are High resolution images.
