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Maja japonica

Maja japonica

Japanese spider crab, giant crab, giant spider crab, Gan's giant crab, Gan's giant crab, tall crab

Features:The world's largest crustacean looks a lot like a giant venomous spider

The Japanese spider crab is the largest crab in the world, and also the largest crustacean and arthropod in the world. It is a strange creature living in the southeastern coastal waters of Japan, and is also the prototype of the so-called "killer crab" in domestic rumors. This largest know...

Enteroctopus dofleini

Enteroctopus dofleini

Giant North Pacific Octopus

Features:They have a short lifespan, but are very fertile, and can lay up to 100,000 eggs.

As a representative of invertebrates, the octopus has a soft body and a hard mouth. The Pacific giant octopus is the largest one among them. The largest North Pacific giant octopus discovered so far weighs 554 kilograms and has a wingspan of 9.8 meters. It is considered the largest octopus in the wo...

Tumor starfish

Tumor starfish

Zhenghaixing

Features:Not every starfish is called "Patrick's Star."

Tumor starfish have extraordinary regenerative abilities. If a predator attacks them and they lose their arms, they can regrow the missing parts. They usually have 5 arms, but have been found with 4 or 6 arms, which may occur because more than one arm was damaged at the same time....

Aurelia aurita

Aurelia aurita

Moon jellyfish, UFO jellyfish, Moon jellyfish

Features:Transparent jellyfish

Moon jellyfish feed on plankton such as mollusks, crustaceans, worms and copepods.Moon jellyfish occasionally eat gelatinous zooplankton such as hydromedusae and comb jellies.Moon jellyfish also use their stinging cells to capture plankton.Moon jellyfish live and reproduce for a few months before dy...

Saccoglossus hwangtauensis

Saccoglossus hwangtauensis

Saccoglossus hwangtauensis,Huangdao long-nosed acorn worm, jade hookworm

Features:Light orange body

The snout of the Huangdao long-nosed worm is relatively long, about 1/20 of the total length, hence the name. The snout is oblate and conical, with an obvious or inconspicuous longitudinal groove on each of the central lines of the dorsal and ventral surfaces, extending from the base of the snout to...

Grylloblattella cheni

Grylloblattella cheni

Grylloblattella cheni

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Chen's western cockroach has an ancient origin, which can be traced back to the Upper Lime Period about 300 million years ago. It can be called a "living fossil" of the class Insecta. As an extremely rare insect that ordinary people rarely see, there are only a few museums in the world...