and last but not least, just half the size of your little finger, the Lightbulb Sea Squirt uses its glass-like clusters to filter seawater and extract plankton, I know I said four pictures, but below are five of my own,
these are not in the North Sea, they were all taken in the Philippines in the late 80's, above is a sea squirt,
Friday 28 August 2009
Every One Knows How Colourful The Tropical Reefs Are,
but below are 4 of a set of pictures taken off the UK coast,
from the North Sea, off Norfolk in fact, above a Long-Spined Sea Scorpions change colour to disguise themselves so they can ambush their prey,
an adult sea slug sits atop a ship wreck, it belongs to a group called Nudibranchs, Latin meaning exposed gills, one of the hall marks for this group is their striking colours, thought to be a defense by proclaiming they are poisonous to eat,
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