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A pod of six sea creatures surprised whale watchers in Kona, Hawaii, on April 17. That morning, a boat from Hawaiian Adventures Kona was about ten miles offshore when the crew spotted several tall ...
The elusive predators were attracted to a baited underwater camera, officials said.
Dr. Jaimie Tom, an emergency physician at Hawaii Pacific Health, tells Yahoo Life that jellyfish stings are at the top of the list when it comes to marine animal encounters that land people in the ...
A herd of axis deer in Maui. Hawaii is the most isolated major land mass in the world and that isolation has led to very high rates of endemism.Uniquely adapted endemic species are often sensitive to competition from invasive species and Hawaii has had numerous extinctions (List of extinct animals of the Hawaiian Islands).
At sea, a taniwha often appears as a whale or a large shark [4] such as southern right whale or whale shark; [5] compare the Māori name for the great white shark: mangō-taniwha. In inland waters, they may still be of whale-like dimensions, but look more like a gecko or a tuatara , having a row of spines along the back.
Toxopneustes pileolus, commonly known as the flower urchin, is a widespread and commonly encountered species of sea urchin from the Indo-West Pacific.It is considered highly dangerous, as it is capable of delivering extremely painful and medically significant stings when touched.
The video above, filmed by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), provides an amazingly close view of this odd-looking fish as it swims deep in the ocean.
Lybia edmondsoni is a species of small crab in the family Xanthidae and is endemic to the Hawaiian Islands.Like other members of the genus Lybia, it is commonly known as the pom-pom crab or boxer crab because of its habit of carrying a sea anemone around in each of its claws, these resembling pom-poms or boxing gloves.