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Details: Zebra sharks get their name from the coloration they exhibit as juveniles. Juvenile zebra sharks have brown and white stripes, but as they get older, their pattern lightens to become tan with ...

Striped burrfish have a beak-like mouth perfect for eating hard-shelled invertebrates such as barnacles, hermit crabs, mussels, oysters and shrimp. They'll occasionally graze on algae. These fish live ...

Juvenile french angel fish provide "cleaning stations" where they eat parasites off other fishes. French angelfish have been recorded as being up to 24 inches (61 centimeters) long, but are typically ...

Gulf toadfish don't have any scales on their body. Male gulf toadfish are slightly larger than females. They reach a maximum length of 12.8 inches (32.4 cm). They thrive in muddy and sandy-bottom ...

Size: Diamondback terrapins vary in size depending on their sex. Females tend to be larger averaging at about 11 inches (28 meters) long, while males only grow to about 5.5 inches (14 centimeters) ...

Napoleon wrasses grow to two feet (24 inches) long, on average. Mollusks, sea urchins, crustaceans like shrimp and crab, boxfishes, sea hares, starfish and eels are all on the menu for Napoleon ...

Details: These sea cucumbers are long, brown and bumpy with tiny tube feet underneath to help them move. Their name and appearance might not be the cutest, but they’re important! They help clean the ...

Details: Unlike hard corals, corky sea fingers are soft corals, meaning they do not build a calcium-based skeleton but rather a flexible internal structure. They have dense unbranched rods growing ...

Details: These sea jellies are bright orange and large. They have a translucent bell (head) with 24 long, thin tentacles and four more pale, spiraling arms for capturing and feeding on prey. They have ...

Details: These urchins can be grayish or pale tan, sometimes with pinkish tinge. Also referred to as collector urchins, they earn their name for their behavior of collecting debris and attaching it to ...