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  • A lionfish (Pterois volitans) shows of its impressive mouthparts to warn off the photographer. These fish are voracious predators and are equipped with poisonous spines to deter the unwary. This image was taken in the Red Sea, where they are endemic. Relatively recently however, they have found their way to the Caribbean where they are decimating local fish species that are unprepared to deal with such an efficient predator.
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  • A striated or "hairy" frogfish (Antennarius striatus) waves its esca or lure in an attempt to attract prey. Some think that the fish's "hairs", which are actually dermal spinules,  are designed to make them look like urchins. My experience is that they are not always found among urchins, so the "hairs" are simply a good way of breaking up the fish's outline for camouflage.
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  • The "sharp end" of a reef lizardfish (Synodus variegatus) showing its many teeth. Their camouflage allows these these ambush predators feed largely on fish that they capture as they swim by.
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  • Two small fish hitch a ride in the biw wave caused by the enormous shark swimming behind them. Each whale shark carries a whole ecosystem wth it,  and provides shelter, food and mobility for many other species.
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  • A whale shark (Rhincodon typus) feeding on fish eggs during the annual aggregation at Isla Mujeres, Mexico.
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  • Two small fish hitch a ride in the bow wave caused by the enormous shark swimming behind them. Each whale shark carries a whole ecosystem wth it,  and provides shelter, food and mobility for many other species.
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  • Portrait and detail of the "hairs" of a striated frogfish (Antennarius striatus). Lembeh Straits, North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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  • Pro underwater photographer, Alx Mustard poses over a school of French grunts (Haemulon flavolineatum).
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  • Portrait and detail of the "hairs" of a striated frogfish (Antennarius striatus). Lembeh Straits, North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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  • Perfectly designed to seek and hunt its benthic prey, this great hammerhead's (Sphyrna mokarran) cephlafoil (or hammer) is packed full of amazing sensors. It's downward facing mounth allows it to strike as soon as the sensors find prey. Perhaps less obviously, hammerhaeds are amazingly maneouverable, allowing them to react in an instant to prey as they find it.
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  • Whale sharks feed by filtering thousands of liters of water through their gills and extracting the plankton that is contained in it. This shark has found a particuarly rich patch of plankton and is trying to extract as much of the food as possible by opening its mouth as wide as it can.
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  • An oceanic manta ray (Manta birostris) performing feeding loop is the plankton rich water off Isla Mujeres, Mexico. The grace of the movement reminds me of a prima ballerina at the peak of her performance.
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  • A tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier), peers inquisitively into my dome port during the Wetpixel Tiger Sharks Expedition with Epic Diving. This amazing creature is equipped with an array of sensors in his nose, which can be seen in the image as the structures that look like pores. Included amongst these are the Ampullae of Lorenzini, which are electrical receptors, probably capable of picking up the electrical nerve impulses which make my heart beat.
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  • Whale sharks feed by filtering thousands of liters of water through their gills and extracting the plankton that is contained in it. This shark has found a particuarly rich patch of plankton and is trying to extract as much of the food as possible by opening its mouth as wide as it can.
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  • A clown frogfish  (Antennarius maculatus) makes its ponderous way across the sea bed. Frogfish move using their modified pectoral and pelvic fins to walk along the floor as this one is, not unlike a biped's walking gait  or they can make short "hops"  In the case of the latter, they move their pectoral fins simultaneously forward and back, transferring their weight to the pelvic fins while moving the pectorals forward.
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  • Nudibranchs will often climb up bits of coral in order to use their extraordinary chemo receptor rhinophores to "taste" the water and sense food sources and threats.
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  • A small schhol of schoolmasters (Lutjanus apodus) under the dive boat on San Salvador, Bahamas
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