After an involuntary break from posting, we’re back, and celebrating the quintessential gateway-to-summer weekend by freaking you – and ourselves – out.
Meet the awesomely freaky Dragon Moray eel – aka enchelycore pardalis. This one is mugging for the camera of Hawaii diver Steve Frisbie, owner of Wanna Dive Kona.
Fairly rare in his Hawaiian neck of the ocean, the Dragon Moray is mainly found in the Indo-Pacific (Pacific and Indian Ocean regions).
This eel grows to about three feet long, and hunts for fish by night. And the horns? They’re nasal tubes, or really long nostrils. Next time you complain about the shape of your own nose, think twice before doing so!
One day last month, New England Aquarium marine mammal trainers Justin and Erin paid a visit to their lobsters for a training session.
As this video shows, in a freaky, glowing sort of way, they got way more than they bargained for – and got to witness one of Justin’s lobsters shedding his old shell, also called molting, which was captured with night-vision video.
Lobsters are crustaceans, and all crustaceans molt, or shed their outer shells, when their bodies get too big for them.
Freaky fact: they also typically EAT their shells after shedding them. Pass the salsa!
Watch the video and see if you can spy the lobster’s old shell, at bottom right.
Dive in - the water is perfect, and the ocean's wonders await you. On O4E, we have fun, we educate and we ask our readers to think of and act for the future of the world's oceans. Plus, it's by a 10 year-old (with a little help from her journalist mom).
