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 *[https://oceana.org/sites/default/files/styles/lightbox/public/shutterstock_blue_glaucus_0.jpg?itok=3V5T5g0K Glaucus atlanticus] is a pelagic sea slug that looks like an alien creature and eats man o’ wars. Nicknames include "blue angel" and "blue dragon".
+*[[wp:Flabellina_verrucosa|This sea slug]] can incorporate stinging cells from its prey into its body as a defense.
 *Did you ever think you'd hear the words "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC3tAtXdaik carnivorous sponge]" together?
 *The giant larvacean [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1wFb_ShW7k Bathochordaeus] features in this video which has a bit of ADD and also shows us other weird marine life.
+*Northern stargazers may not do anything amazing, but they [https://staticr1.blastingcdn.com/media/photogallery/2016/7/10/660x290/b_502x220/northern-stargazer-photo-2photo-ru_781169.jpg sure are frightening].
+*The [[wp:Tasselled_wobbegong|tasselled wobbegong]] proves that camouflage in nature is a terrifying thing.
+*The [[wp:Idiacanthus_atlanticus|black dragonfish]] emits red/infrared light which it uses to hunt.
+*[[wp:Crinoid|Crinoids]] are practically indistinguishable from underwater plants — until they start [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZcomBnNKXg walking around]!
+*[[wp:Siboglinidae|Siboglinidae]], or beard worms, don’t have mouths or stomachs. They rely on bacteria to metabolize methane or hydrogen sulfide for food.
+*Similarly, the [http://www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/2649-bone-eating-zombie-worms-strange-snapshots.html zombie worm] has no mouth or stomach; it grows roots into whale bones to feed.
+*[http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/nature/post/alien-like-creature-is-a-feeding-brydes-whale/ Bryde’s Whale] is normally pretty skinny, until it wants to swallow a school of fish....
+*The [[wp:Gymnotiformes|knifefish]] emits an electrical field which it uses for sensing prey, possibly communicating, and for stunning prey (one knifefish is better known as the “electric eel”).
+*One ostracod known as the [[wp:Vargula_hilgendorfii|sea-firefly]] is a tiny organism that lights up when jostled, saving it from being eaten by fish, and turning itself into an incredible blue fireball in the process.
+*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3dvs6C8c7g The Sea Pig] looks like something from a Ghibli film.
+*Another thing that actually has nothing to do with pigs: the [http://24.media.tumblr.com/2ba3cf9b5711d7c9ff550e8ad7e579a5/tumblr_mis93qKMwM1s3yrubo1_1280.jpg piglet squid].
+*[http://25.media.tumblr.com/8b8273434501f8e80c1b40f45e847f74/tumblr_mk2o3hbVxJ1s3yrubo1_1280.jpg Sheepshead fish] have teeth like people, but way more of them.
+*The [http://24.media.tumblr.com/a20370b212c1ec4bbe3a08d02a26e4ef/tumblr_mlsc8eVAm51s3yrubo1_1280.jpg pigbutt worm], because nature can be juvenile.
+*The [http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/news/animals-news/psychedelic-fish-video-vin psychedelic fish] has an unbelievably impractical sense of coordination, resembling a drunk driver as it "swims".
+*Males in many oceanic species live only to find a female and supply sperm, sometimes lacking the organs they need to eat — examples include the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglerfish anglerfish] (where the male sometimes fuses with the much larger female to become one entity!) and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanket_octopus blanket octopus] are examples, as well as the black dragonfish above.
+*[[wp:Argonaut_(animal)|Argonauts]] are octopuses that make shells for themselves.
+*Some squid have the [http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=can-squid-fly power of flight]! Video footage is almost non-existent, but [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hCa0sEJl_4 here's proof].
+*[http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070821114339.htm Elephantnose fish] have magnetoception!
+*[https://web.archive.org/web/20171215213401/https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF00329055 Fish can kill you].
+*Life on Earth is already [http://www.cracked.com/article_19988_the-5-most-nightmarish-worms-planet.html stranger] than [http://fishindex.blogspot.com/2008/12/frilled-shark-chlamydoselachus.html fiction], so it's not really possible to think of something more alien than what already exists, especially in the oceans.
 ====Mammals====