Sea creatures

Many marine animals amaze and capture our imagination. While we're often more interested in intelligent dolphins or giant whales, the sperm whale, it turns out, gets little attention. But it's worth taking a closer look: it's far from as simple as it seems.

As children, we all read books about dinosaurs and dreamed of seeing a world that existed millions of years ago. Is it really possible to encounter creatures our own age in modern life? It turns out that "living fossils" millions of years old live right alongside us.

The first biologist to see this fish described it as a strange and inexplicable creature. More than half a century has passed since then, and science has learned much about marine life and deep-sea anglerfish, but the thaumaticht still amazes with its unusualness.

Everyone is familiar with the moray eel, at least from photographs and scientific films about marine life. But it turns out there are about 200 species of these fish, and among them are some very interesting ones. The Javan gymnothorox, or giant moray eel, deserves special attention.

In Canada, scientists captured images of a narwhal in a pod of beluga whales. The narwhal likely came into contact with the whales when it was still very young. At a young age, they looked very similar, so the whales accepted it as one of their own.