{"id":25004,"date":"2015-11-30T11:50:13","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T09:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=25004"},"modified":"2015-11-30T11:50:13","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T09:50:13","slug":"coldest-oldest-fastest-10-extreme-sea-creatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2015\/11\/30\/coldest-oldest-fastest-10-extreme-sea-creatures\/","title":{"rendered":"Coldest, oldest, fastest : 10 extreme sea creatures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Coldest, oldest, fastest : 10 extreme sea creatures<\/a> – these are amazing, both in looks and facts. \u00a0Here are my favorite two.<\/p>\n

\"Angler<\/a>
Angler Fish
Photo: Edith Widder<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Anglerfish inhabit the deep sea, and for a century they baffled marine biologists. At first only female anglerfish were known; where the males were and what they looked like was a complete mystery. Then a parasitologist began studying the worm-like parasites generally attached to anglerfish females. What he found, instead of parasites, were anglerfish males \u2014 each undergoing a radical transformation. When a male anglerfish is tiny, he finds\u00a0and attaches to a female. First his jaws dissolve and his bloodstream fuses with the female\u2019s. Then his brain disappears and his guts shrink. Eventually he is little more than a testis, fertilizing the eggs of one female, for the rest of his life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Anemone<\/a>
Anemone purple anemonefish
CC BY-SA 3.0
Photo: Nick Hobgood
Purple anemone (Heteractis magnifica) and resident anemonefish (Amphiprion ocellaris) (clownfish) in East Timor.
http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ocellaris_clownfish#mediaviewer\/File:Anemone_purple_anemonefish.jpg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Clownfish families were made famous in \u2018Finding Nemo,\u2019 but real ones have more peculiar lives than the movie lets on. In a sea anemone where the clownfish live, the biggest fish is always a female, laying all the eggs. The next biggest fish is a functional male, fertilizing them. And lots of smaller clownfish are immature males. When the female dies or is eaten by a predator, the biggest male switches sex to become female. At the same time the biggest immature male grows into a functional male that can fertilize the eggs. This conveyor belt system of parenting assures a constant supply of baby Nemos.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Coldest, oldest, fastest : 10 extreme sea creatures – these are amazing, both in looks and facts. \u00a0Here are my favorite two. Anglerfish inhabit the deep sea, and for a century they baffled marine biologists. At first only female anglerfish were known; where the males were and what they looked like was a complete mystery. … Continue reading Coldest, oldest, fastest : 10 extreme sea creatures<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Coldest, oldest, fastest : 10 extreme sea creatures #nature #sea #fish","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2554,841,655,346],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-25004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-fish","tag-nature","tag-science","tag-sea"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t