Octopus hunts down stone fish, one of the most venomous animals in the ocean

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Footage of the incredible moment an octopus bravely hunts down an extremely venomous stone fish off the coast of Egpyt.

The video, filmed by a diver in June this year, shows the large octopus chasing down the creature, apparently unconcerned by its lethal stings.

The filmer later wrote online: “Why does the stone fish not use its incredibly poisonous stings?

“Maybe the octopus is immune to this lethal predator or he is intelligent to a point that he knows how to catch the stone fish, avoiding the dangerous stings.”

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What on Earth is this?

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This appears to be some type of Pacific Sea Cucumber, but the follower who has been helping me can’t find a scientific name for it. It often shows up under the name ‘oh ikari’, but that doesn’t appear to be an official name. 

The weird frondy bits are oral tentacles, which are modified structures similar to the tube feet seen in other echinoderms like sea stars and sea urchins. The oral tentacles filter food particulates out of the water (algae, minute aquatic animals, or waste materials - yum) and are used to channel them into the animal’s mouth ones at a time. 

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Source: earthstory

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cutie-sharks: “ giffingsharks: “ The Greenland Shark is a prehistoric shark, it has an extra gill slit than the modern day shark, so it comes from another era. It lives thousands of feet on the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean, so very few people...
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cutie-sharks: “ giffingsharks: “ The Greenland Shark is a prehistoric shark, it has an extra gill slit than the modern day shark, so it comes from another era. It lives thousands of feet on the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean, so very few people...
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cutie-sharks: “ giffingsharks: “ The Greenland Shark is a prehistoric shark, it has an extra gill slit than the modern day shark, so it comes from another era. It lives thousands of feet on the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean, so very few people...
Zoom Info
cutie-sharks: “ giffingsharks: “ The Greenland Shark is a prehistoric shark, it has an extra gill slit than the modern day shark, so it comes from another era. It lives thousands of feet on the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean, so very few people...
Zoom Info
cutie-sharks: “ giffingsharks: “ The Greenland Shark is a prehistoric shark, it has an extra gill slit than the modern day shark, so it comes from another era. It lives thousands of feet on the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean, so very few people...
Zoom Info

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The Greenland Shark is a prehistoric shark, it has an extra gill slit than the modern day shark, so it comes from another era. It lives thousands of feet on the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean, so very few people know about it. The Greenland Shark is known to live up to 200 years old. Parasites latch onto the eye of the shark and feed off the tissue of the eye, rendering the shark blind. But they have no problem hunting for food, they have incredible smell and, like most sharks, they can sense the vibrations that prey give off.

Cutie prehistoric shark! (Except for the eye scream part).

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