Mesmerizing Sea Life

Flamingo tongue is a marine gastropod mollusk that lives on the coral reefs in the Caribbean and the Tropical Western Atlantic. This miniature is very colorful with bright pink or orange coloration with black spots and can grow between 2 to 3 cm in size. Specialized in eating soft corals and is typically found on sea whips, sea fans, and sea plumes. They slowly crawl on the bodies of their prey and eat, leaving only the skeleton behind.  Gorgonian coral is a soft coral that contains a toxic chemical. While feeding on these corals, they do not suffer any harm. Instead, they incorporate this toxic material as a secondary chemical and become toxic themselves. As a result, the predator has a distasteful experience when they try to feed on these snails. These bright colors present on the Flamingo tongue serves as a warning to the predators, which is known as aposematism. Flamingo tongue reproduces through internal fertilization - where the female lays the eggs on the soft corals where s...

"Why it has to be a shark every time let it be a different predator Hmm, Let's go with an alligator" Maybe the director as thought like this, which gave life to an oversized alligator thriller "The Crawl" When a massive hurricane hits the Floride town. Haley, a young woman ignores the evacuation order and goes to search for his missing father, Dave. After finding his father in a severely injured condition, they both find themselves in front of a gigantic alligator. Making them trapped in the basement with rapidly approaching floodwaters filled with more of these aggressive predators. With storm strengthing they have to overcome their fear to save themselves. During the entire runtime, the movie lets us experience a stressful joy to watch with featuring some of the fantastic underwater sequences. This 2019 horror thriller has been directed by Alexandre Aja featuring Kaya Scodelario as Haley and Barry Pepper as Dave (Haley's Father). Here are some of the excit...

Squalene, natural oil that is being harvested from sharks is being used in the Covid-19 vaccine. This ingredient is used as an adjuvant in medicine which increases the effectiveness of a vaccine by increasing the immune response. In order to immunize everyone in the world with two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine containing squalene, would require around half a million sharks, a shark group said. Around 3,000 sharks are needed to extract one tonne of squalene. According to the Shark Allies, species targeted for being rich in squalene include the gulper shark and the basking shark, which are classed as vulnerable, meaning that their populations are decreasing and they could become endangered if the circumstances threatening them continue. The advocacy group has said that harvesting an endangered specie for a component in the medicine is not sustainable. “Harvesting something from a wild animal is never going to be sustainable, especially if it's a top predator that doesn't reproduc...