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Zebra sharks can breathe via buccal pumping. Using muscles to pump water over their gills allows them to breathe while resting on the seafloor instead of continuously swimming. The diet of a zebra ...

Nurse sharks are mostly nocturnal, meaning they sleep during the day and hunt at night. Nurse sharks hang out on the ocean floor, hiding in the sand and preying on any bottom dwelling creatures that ...

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 ...

Bonnethead sharks are the smallest member of the hammerhead shark family. Bonnethead sharks live in the warm coastal waters of the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea and off the Pacific ...

Parrotfish are herbivores. They feed on algae by using their parrot-like beaks to scrape the algae off of corals and other rocky substrates. They use pharygeal (throat) teeth to grind and rock they ...

These wedgefish can grow up to 10 feet (36 meters) long. Along the coasts of Australia and Southeast Asia and throughout the Indo-Pacific, bottlenose wedgefish inhabit coastal soft bottom environments ...

Terrapins can swim in both fresh and saltwater. There are seven subspecies of diamondback terrapins. They have strong jaws for crushing they shells of their prey. Diamondback terrapins vary in size ...

Using the stinging cells in its tentacles, smooth flower coral will catch smaller marine invertebrates that drift by. Coral also have a special algae—called zooxanthellae– in their tissues that ...

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 ...

These fish are shy and will retreat into hiding if approached by other living things. Long-spine porcupinefish have dark brown spotting all over their bodies and a dark bar running from eye to eye.

The map puffer can be found in or near tropical and subtropical coral reef environments and lagoon ecosystems. They're distributed from Indian Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. Map puffers have a ...