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Anemones can display vivid greens, purples, reds, and blues because their tissues contain fluorescent proteins that absorb sunlight and re-emit it as glowing color. 🔎

Cuttlefish can raise and flatten tiny skin structures called papillae, allowing them to copy the texture of rocks, coral, or sand almost instantly 🔎

Cleaner shrimp will sometimes crawl directly into a moray eel’s mouth to eat parasites while the eel patiently holds still. 🔎

Bubble coral inflates its soft, balloon-like tentacles during the day to absorb light, then shrinks them at night when it switches to feeding. 🔎

Anemones can build on many materials, even wrecks. 🔎

Mount Agung is sacred; the dwelling place of the gods and the spiritual axis connecting heaven and earth. 🔎

Clownfish can live with their parents for their entire lives, sometimes more than 20 years, without ever leaving home. 🔎

Manned by a Moorish Idol. 🔎

An extensive coral garden has revitalized this bay. 🔎

Trumpetfish are stealth experts. They can change color to match their surroundings and blend in perfectly.  🔎

Sponges like this one belong to one of the oldest animal lineages on Earth, dating back over 600 million years. Before dinosaurs, before trees, before most animals even existed. 🔎

Spot the resident shrimp. 🔎

Big smile. 🔎

Small groupers lie on Caribbean coral to get cleaned. Cleaner fish and shrimp remove parasites from their skin, giving the groupers a free health check while they stay still. 🔎

The limestone cliffs of Curaçao were formed from ancient coral reefs that grew underwater millions of years ago and were later lifted above sea level. 🔎

The region is tectonically active, adding to its dramatic landscape. 🔎

Just need to make it blue. 🔎

The Gobi Desert’s high altitude makes night time temperatures frigid year round. 🔎

Lacking any bones, this octopus can easily hide in tight spaces. 🔎

Vivid coloration gives this Aegean fish a tropical veneer. 🔎

Extremely intelligent cephalopods, Cuttlefish can change their color, texture, and even patterns instantly to blend into their surroundings or communicate with others. 🔎

Unlike most sharks, reef sharks can rest on the ocean floor, relying on subtle gill movements to keep breathing. 🔎

Scorpionfish use their natural camouflage to disappear into the reef, making them nearly impossible to spot. 🔎

Starfish are evolutionarily closer to humans than to insects. 🔎