Rare Footage Of A Sea Angel Swimming Under The Ice Captured

There are two vastly unexplored areas of the universe. One is of course the deep space which is impossible to be explored completely. However, the second frontier of discovery lies right here on Earth and it’s the deep ocean. Even though many explorers have gone in the deep ocean many times, it’s still one of the most unexplored places for humans.

These sea angles are inhabited in the cold waters of the Arctic, subarctic Atlantic, and Pacific oceans. Their usual prey is the sea butterflies (Limacina helicina). Some of these creatures have developed small tentacles that they use to catch their prey and hold them while consuming. Sea angles are protandrous hermaphrodites. This means that they can be both male and female during life cycles. The young sea angels usually start off as males and as they grow up, they develop eggs. The adult or mature sea angels have both spermatozoa and eggs in them. It takes about 1 to 2 years for another generation of them to surface. Sea angels have no external gills and have horn-like mouth organs. There are several subspecies and forms recognized from the sea angles with different shell shapes. This specie can grow up to 4 cm as adults, whereas during their larvae states, they are approximately 0.15 mm.