marine – סלומה

Phyllodesmium poindimiei.

‘Muppet of the sea’ can inflate its own body.

This unusual species of Gulper eel has the ability to engulf large amounts of water
both to help it hoover up smaller prey and to deter any would-be
predators by making itself look much larger than it actually is.

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Романтичная хрень со дна морского, “Romantic crap from the bottom of the sea”, photography by Roman Fedortsov.

Sea Bunny Nudibranch (source).

Aplysia vaccaria, also known as the black sea hare and California black sea hare, is a species of extremely large sea slug, a marine, opisthobranch, gastropod mollusk in the family Aplysiidae.

Pseudocolochirus violaceus (sea apples).

Argentinian Orca beaching itself to catch a seal pup (source).

The mantis shrimp “spearing” the
head of a fish. Mantis shrimp wait for fish to swim near their burrow
and then strike with their claws and drag them into their burrows. Their
strikes are so strong that they have been known to smash aquarium
glass.

Horseshoe crabs can lay between 60,000 to 120,000 eggs. These eggs are laid in the sand or mud in batches of a few thousand at a
time, and take 2 weeks to hatch. Many are eaten by seabirds while
incubating. (source)

Solar powered sea slugs shed light on search for perpetual green energy

In an amazing achievement akin to adding solar panels to your body, a
Northeast sea slug sucks raw materials from algae to provide its
lifetime supply of solar-powered energy, according to a study by Rutgers
University-New Brunswick and other scientists.

“It’s a remarkable feat because it’s highly unusual for
an animal to behave like a plant and survive solely on photosynthesis,”
said Debashish Bhattacharya, senior author of the study and
distinguished professor in the Department of Biochemistry and
Microbiology at Rutgers-New Brunswick. “The broader implication is in
the field of artificial photosynthesis. That is, if we can figure out
how the slug maintains stolen, isolated plastids to fix carbon
without the plant nucleus, then maybe we can also harness isolated
plastids for eternity as green machines to create bioproducts or energy.
The existing paradigm is that to make green energy, we need the plant
or alga to run the photosynthetic organelle, but the slug shows us that
this does not have to be the case.”

The sea slug, Elysia chlorotica, steals millions of green-colored
plastids, which are like tiny solar panels, from algae.Credit: Karen N.
Pelletreau/University of Maine

Cheong Xin Chan, Pavel Vaysberg, Dana C Price, Karen N Pelletreau,
Mary E Rumpho, Debashish Bhattacharya. Active Host Response to Algal
Symbionts in the Sea Slug Elysia chlorotica. Molecular Biology and
Evolution, 2018; DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msy061