If something lives in the icy waters sloshing around Europa – a large Jupiter moon suspected to contain a salty ocean beneath its icy shell – perhaps it looks like the see-through, orange-speckled squids swimming in Hawaiian waters.
The top photos from the 2018 Ocean Art Underwater Photo Competition have been released, and they depict an alien world: a wall of sharks, a ceiling of rays, dancing seahorses.
Many of the alien photos were captured by divers well beneath the surface, which carries the challenge of lighting up the dark sea. But the efforts are illuminating, like a wide-eyed fish munching on the insides of jellyfish, and an exquisitely camouflaged angler – who looks like the very seafloor itself – though with an ominous mouth. Read more…
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