The ocean covers about 70% of the earth’s surface, but only about 5% of the ocean has been explored. However, scientists learn more about the oceans every day, including beings living there.
The ocean is full of strange creatures, such as The strange new sea creature found after it was listed on the online fish marketor the Strange “Sea Walnut” that can be overturned like Benjamin Button’s weird case.
There are also some very cold animals in the ocean. Available The light shark is real but it also has another arm trick. There are also cute sea slugs that look like sheep shaun but cool for different reasons.
Shaun slug of sheep sea is not the only cute sea slug that looks like other animals, though. Others -cute sea slugs are called sea rabbits, and they are one of the funniest creatures in the ocean.
Learn about sea rabbit, where they can be found, and what makes them cool (besides their appearance).
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Sea Bunnies are named for their equation with a rabbit
They were first discovered in Japan
Sea bunnies (Jorunna parva) is a species of sea slug, also known as Nudibranch Dorid, which is a less shell mollusk. This cute sea slug was first described in Kii province, Japan.
Japan is known for its cultural phenomenon, where things are cute, loved, and small. Thus, sea rabbits quickly went viral on social media in Japan because of their appearance like their rabbit that fits the aesthetics of Kawaii.
However, sea rabbits have also been found living elsewhere in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, including off the coast:
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Papua New Guinea
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Philippines
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Meeting
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Seychelles
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Tanzania
Although these cute creatures are widespread throughout the Indo-Pacific region, they are very difficult to find. Sea bunnies Just about one to two centimeters long on average!
While most white sea rabbits, they can also change color to be different colors yellow or brown, though some can be green.
This color variation has left scientists who are wondering if there are different species, or if they are single species that have only a variety of colors.
Although they can be found in all depths of water, most sea slugs, including sea rabbits, are found to live in shallow waters around coral reefs and in tide pools, often clinging to growing growths and coral reefs.
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“Ear” Sea rabbit serves an important purpose
They act like an antenna or “feeling” of an insect
Sea Bunnies got their names because of their “rabbits”. But these “ears” are actually called rhinophores, and they serve an important purpose for sea slugs. Rhinophores acts like “feelings” of insects. They detect chemicals in the water, which helps the sea slug find food.
Sea rabbits are also covered in a spikes called Caryophyllidia that help them feel their environment. But papillae also helps look like their bunny, making them look soft.
Sea Bunnies also looks like they have a bunny tail. But this “tail” is actually the exterior of the slug, helping the slug breathe under the water.
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Despite their cute appearance, poisonous seafood
They get toxins from their food
Sea slugs may not look like attractive, but many of them are actually very cold. For example, a Solar -powered sea slug is the first animal known for photosynthesis.
Cold sea bunnies in their own way: they are actually poisonous. Although they will not hurt humans because of their small size, they are strong enough to prevent predators.
Sea Bunnies get their toxins from their food. They eat most of the very toxic sea sponge, storing toxins from the sponge in special cells in their skin. When a sea rabbit is threatened, it will use this toxin, stinging potential predators and injecting it with toxins. They are also poisonous to any predator trying to eat it.
What is cooler is that toxins from sea rabbits and sponges they eat can be used for cancer treatment. Therefore, these little animals are definitely small, but they are great, and they play an important role in the oceans and human life.
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It must have been more to the seafood than its cute appearance, but without going to the virus for their appearance, we may not know much about them as we did today.
If you have ever dived or snorkeling on a coral reef in the Indo-Pacific region, make sure your eyes are peeled off for these cute creatures. But you need to look carefully, or you might miss them.