Image courtesy of the 13th World Oceans Day on 8 June 2021
Humanity is constantly advancing into the universe
However for the sea that is close by
But it is still as mysterious as the Milky Way
It started a long, long time ago
This is where life is born
They swim in the sea
Evolution evolves and multiplies
Only today's vibrant earth
However, as humans dive deeper and deeper
A whole new world emerges
Many unknown species have entered people's field of vision
In the depths of this dark night
There is a kingdom that we can hardly imagine
It's a world without gravity
Huge marine life
Swim around gently and gracefully
Mysterious ocean
They are endowed with a wide variety of colors and forms
Now, sink with me into the depths of the ocean
Go and see the mysterious creatures of the seabed
Lion-maned jellyfish in the depths of the White Sea of Russia
The tentacles like lion's manes stretch freely
But when they form a web
They stretch to 1.2m to 1.5m
Used to trap other prey
- Including their own kind
Transparent banded ctenophores with transparent bodies
It is often invisible in the depths of the dark oceans
This gelatinous organism
It turns into a rainbow color when in danger
Roll up the long banded body
to protect the stomach (purple horizontal bar) and nerve centers from aggression
Dealfish from the Mediterranean
Move in a vertical eerie way
Let the non-functional tail fin drift with the current
Mislead the prey for a jellyfish
However, the purple dome and slender tissue were the focus
Do you think this is a transparent jellyfish?
No
This comb jellyfish is parasitic by a foot-like animal
Note the pink lumpy substance on the right
The little black dot is its eye
The schizophores look like shrimp
It is tiny and transparent inside and out
They burrow into the stomach of the host
Absorbs the nutrients of the host as well as the body
Until the host dies
Egg yolk jellyfish from near Kamchatka
As we age
The body will turn bright yellow
Although the strength is not great
But once wrapped around its sticky tentacles
The toxin is released immediately
Two means of trapping prey
This has enabled them to survive in the depths of the ocean for hundreds of millions of years
King rag worm
Its natural habitat is the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans
Colorful and intimidating
Yet in the depths of the brutal ocean
But it is the favorite snack of the undersea animals,
This leads to it living only in crevices in rocks
Only a quarter of the body will be stretched out to catch prey
Bottle sea squirt
An ancient colloidal invertebrate
It usually aggregates by groups into a spiral
Deter prey in this ancient way
These barrel-shaped filter-eaters have a protective rod in their infancy
Extends along the nerve center
Make them human
Close relatives in invertebrates
In the early days of life,
It is some kind of creature that comes together in this way
It eventually evolved into a living thing
Only then did the vertebrates
The body length is only between 1 cm and 10 cm
Groups can aggregate up to 7m long
Line up into a perfect salp spiral
Although only the size of a person's thumb
The place in the food chain is insignificant
But when they come together on a billion
Tons of carbon can be transferred per day
Transported from the surface of the ocean to the depths of the ocean
Change the atmospheric composition of the planet
Sea butterflies from the Sea of Japan
These free-swimming mollusks
The wingspan is only one centimeter
The whole body is crystal clear
Colorful like glass
Yet when they come together in the thousands
You can turn a blue ocean black
Green fluorescent jellyfish
It can make them glow green in the dark
Identification and isolation of fluorescent proteins
Let the scientist win the Nobel Prize
In the midst of billions of years of evolution
Survival is brutal
These beautiful and mysterious creatures
Evolve a wide variety of skills
Confuse or prey
And, of course, due to the rapid rise of our human race
Many creatures are extinct
Even without human knowledge
It's not that they evolved too slowly.
It's that we're rising too fast
Disturbingly
Within the scope of the universe that human beings can explore
Only the earth can give birth to life
There is no other planet that can be replaced
All life
We should all live together here
That's where there is hope