Beastlypedia
Wild animal profiles. How they live, where they are found, and what makes each one strange. No care sheets, no difficulty ratings, just the animals.
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Giant Manta Ray
Mobula birostris
Seven meters across, filter-feeding, and one of the few fish to pass a mirror test.
Ocean
Leafy Sea Dragon
Phycodurus eques
A relative of the seahorse pretending, very convincingly, to be seaweed.
Ocean
Bottlenose Dolphin
Tursiops truncatus
Every dolphin invents a name for itself and answers to it for life.
Ocean
Clownfish
Amphiprion
Every clownfish is born male, and the largest one becomes female.
Ocean
Immortal Jellyfish
Turritopsis dohrnii
It can run its own life cycle backwards, which is not the same as not dying.
Ocean
Seahorse
Hippocampus
The male gets pregnant, and it is a real pregnancy, not just carrying eggs.
Ocean
Sharks
Selachimorpha
Older than trees, older than Saturn’s rings, and barely a threat to anyone.
Ocean
Octopus
Octopus vulgaris
Three hearts, blue blood, and most of its neurons outside its head.
Ocean
Mantis Shrimp
Odontodactylus scyllarus
The famous eyes are real. The famous conclusion about them is wrong.
Ocean
Cuttlefish
Sepia officinalis
It puts on the best color display in the ocean and probably cannot see color.
Ocean
Humpback Whale
Megaptera novaeangliae
Every male in an ocean sings the same song, and the song changes together.
Ocean
Sea Otter
Enhydra lutris
No blubber, the densest fur on Earth, and an appetite that holds coastlines together.
Ocean