Alien tadpoles and surfing seagull
A hungry whale with a open mouth, swallowing a fish jelly, a lazy gull riding on a seaw turtle, a charming and deadly dangerous tiny octopus, as well as a group of strange fars of fish similar to aliens that have grown with caviar - all of them are united by what is united by what They became the stars of the recent annual "Photographer in the Ocean" competition in 2024, writes Live Science. In total, more than 80 photos are included in 10 categories and now we can look at the best of them.
In focus. Technology has appeared its Telegram channel. Subscribe not to miss the latest and most intrusive news from the world of science! One of the best pictures in high resolution was a photo on which Balaenoptera Edeni striped, which is about to swallow a huge "ball of fish". The picture was taken by photographer Raphael Fernandez Caballero in Lower California (Mexico) and took first place in the category of "Photographer in the Ocean".
According to the author of the photo, for him feeding whales - "The largest show on earth". The highlight of immersion, when the photo was taken, was a whale that jumped out of his mouth with a wide open mouth. However, according to the author, he also managed to watch the "banquet" of many other species during the immersion.
No less amazing picture that entered the shortlist in the "elegant art" category, was a photo of Enrique Genera, on which a lonely seagull seated negligently on the shell of a turtle floating in the middle of the Mediterranean. According to the author, he managed to fix this picture after five hours of scanning the empty ocean in search of something interesting. Catherine Lu took second place in the Ocean Portfolio category, which recorded an unusual deep -sea scene in the Philippines.
The frame shows a young poisonous one -eyed octopus (ampioctopus motti) sitting on a pirosome. The tiny octopus is unlikely to reach 2 centimeters high, but is very toxic. The first place in the "Oceanic Portfolio" category was taken by Schin Gross, which depicts a strange brood of fry (Porichthys notatus) off the coast of British Columbia (Canada). The frame shows fry with wide open eyes, but the most interesting is that they have not yet separated from the orange yolk sacs that glow.
According to the researchers, the fry is tied to the caviar and are protected by their father until they are large enough to expel from under the stone they live. As soon as they grow up enough, they leave the den and go to the deep sea. Adults return to shallow water only when their turn will multiply.