Oceanography
Sea spider sucks live prey
Strange creatures like spiders live on the ocean floor and use taps to suck fluid from prey that are confusing to scientists. These sea spiders, some blind, are challeng…
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Oceanography
Swordfish 'heat' eyeball to hunt prey?
Swordfish (photo - scientific name Xiphias gladius) often live in the high seas, especially in temperate places. However, when hunting, this fish has a rather special ab…
Oceanography
Diodon hystrix hedgehog
Diodon hystrix hedge fish swim slowly even though they beat the fins very quickly. Normally the thorns all over their bodies lay pressed against their bodies, but when t…
Oceanography
Ocean and new discoveries of medicine
Recently, scientists have caught the SNX 111, a carnivorous mollusk that has a poisonous stinger that paralyzes the prey. This toxin can be prepared into a pain reliever…
Oceanography
The real hegemon of the ocean
The relationship between predators and prey is always close to each other, without one, the other cannot exist. Sharks seem to be on a mission to remove weak individuals…
Oceanography
Sailfish
The sail has a scientific name, Istionphorus platypterus, whose body is about 3m long on average, weighs 55kg, but sometimes has a length of 3.6m and weighs up to 60kg.…
Oceanography
Fast fish species like lightning make the scientific world stunned
Despite the rough, ugly appearance, frog fishes are lightning fast when it takes only 1 / 6,000 of 1 second to catch the prey.
Archeology
Discover the earliest carnivorous fish, live with dinosaurs
Scientists have found fossils of the first carnivorous fish on Earth at a quarry in Germany. These fish live in the sea during the time when dinosaurs still dominate the…
Archeology
The ancient sea monster tore the prey with its sharp head
The researchers identified Habelia optata, an ancient marine creature that is only about two centimeters long but can tear off prey with a sharp and flexible head.
Archeology
What flavor does the dinosaur meat taste good or not?
In films, dinosaurs are portrayed as giant carnivores with scary sharp teeth. They easily feed their prey with just one bite.
Archeology
Not Megalodon, this is the first person to
According to archaeological data of scientists after the discovery of their fossils in the Midwestern United States, Cladoselache is the ancestor of the shark.
Archeology
The biting force of the tyrant dinosaur crushed three cars at the same time
The giant tyrant dinosaur can crush prey bone thanks to the bite force and the pressure of the teeth is terribly strong, enough to crush three cars at the same time.
Archeology
The difficult reason makes the Megalodon shark extinct
The world's largest creatures - including whales and sharks ... are hiding in the deep sea. Even when dinosaurs still dominate the ground, the undersea has creatures of…