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Their digestive system is specialized, too, as detritivores, the animals feed on organic matter that falls to the bottom of the sea, gathering and ingesting this detritus with the tube feet. Their gut is very efficient, allowing the maximum amount of nutrition to be extracted from meager resources around the animal's immediate environment.
Scotoplanes globosa, commonly known as the sea pig, is a species of sea cucumber that lives in the deep sea. [1] It was first described by Hjalmar Théel , a Swedish scientist. Scotoplanes globosa , along with numerous other sea cucumbers were discovered by Théel during an expedition on HMS Challenger between the years of 1873-1876.
Though some reviewers praised Marven's energetic and enthusiastic "animal-grabbing" style of presentation, others considered a wildlife presenter to be unnecessary or even "patronising", parallelling debates on the merits of wildlife presenters in documentaries on modern-day animals. A companion book, Sea Monsters: Prehistoric Predators of the ...
The pink amperima sea cucumber, nicknamed the “Barbie pig,” is one of the largest invertebrates living on the deep-sea floor. Along with the transparent unicumber, the creature is a type of ...
A video shows the moment one of the orcas targeted an adult dolphin. “This group of 8 orcas blitzed a small pod of Offshore Bottlenose dolphins before zeroing in on this chunky adult,” Biagini ...
Prehistoric Predators is a 2007 National Geographic Channel program based on different predators that lived in the Cenozoic era, including Smilodon and C. megalodon.The series investigated how such beasts hunted and fought other creatures, and what drove them to extinction.
This was just wild to watch! Commenters also got a kick out of the video ABC News shared. @jackson made me laugh when they said, "The apples after I pick an apple off the bottom of the pile at the ...
The dugong (/ ˈ d (j) uː ɡ ɒ ŋ /; Dugong dugon) is a marine mammal.It is one of four living species of the order Sirenia, which also includes three species of manatees.It is the only living representative of the once-diverse family Dugongidae; its closest modern relative, Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas), was hunted to extinction in the 18th century.