Terrifying assassin in the Caribbean Sea

In just 30 minutes, a large lion fish can cup up to 20 small fish, and in just 5 weeks, this species kills 79% of the fry population.

The Carribe's swimming life sounds very interesting, but unfortunately not for the native fish here. In addition to the anxiety of being caught to exhaustion, dying of chemicals, they have a new enemy: lion fish.

Lion fish is a new ecological threat to the Caribbean.(Photo: LiveScience.)

Research by Oregon State University (USA) found that, with the number of herbivorous fish getting less and less because of the lion fish, this area is facing the phenomenon of seagrass growing over coral, and threatening to cause ecological imbalance.

Sharp fins of poisonous lion fish that cause pain to humans. Some people even have heart disease or allergies that die after being poisoned by it.

Unfortunately, there is no peaceful solution for this fish. Their natural prey was almost caught. Pacific fish native species learn how to avoid this aggressive predator, but in the Atlantic, lion fish is a new species, and other fish do not know much about them.

Lion fish were introduced to Florida in the early 1990s, then traveled north to Rhode Island and now control most of the Caribbean.

With innate defenses, lion fish are not afraid of most other marine species.