Contents TLDR The Blainville’s beaked whale diet is mostly deep-water squid, with some fish and a few crustaceans. Nobody has filmed one feeding. What we know comes from the stomachs…
TLDR Pantropical spotted dolphins eat mostly small fish and squid that live in the deep scattering layer, a band of ocean life that rises toward the surface after dark. Lanternfish…
Quick Answer Gray’s beaked whales (Mesoplodon grayi) eat mostly deep-sea squid and fish, sucking them in at depth rather than biting them. Stomach contents from stranded animals have confirmed a…
Table of Contents TLDR Strap-toothed whales (Mesoplodon layardii) eat squid — almost exclusively. A landmark stomach-content study found 24 species of deep-sea squid made up 94.8% of everything recovered, led…
Table of Contents TLDR Samoa’s waters hold roughly 900 fish species across three very different zones: coral reef species you’ll see snorkeling off Upolu or Savai’i, bluewater gamefish like blue…
TLDR A spade-toothed whale (Mesoplodon traversii) has never been seen alive, but a landmark 2024 necropsy in New Zealand finally gave scientists direct evidence of its diet: squid beaks, squid…
TLDR Longman’s beaked whales eat mostly squid, plus some deep-sea fish, hunted in near-total darkness more than 1,000 meters down. They don’t chew or bite — they suck their prey…
Here’s the thing most people miss about a coral reef: the coral itself is an animal, and it’s an invertebrate. The whole structure — that limestone city you see in…
Drop your face into the water off almost any Caribbean reef and within thirty seconds something blue and yellow will swim past you like it owns the place. That’s probably…