Sea angel: The war of good and evil under water. This angelic mollusc has been looking for monkfish all his life to destroy them (7 photos)

It would seem that angels are worth looking for among the clouds and overhead. But it turned out that they competently disguise themselves from human eyes, hiding not in the bright heavenly halls, but in the cold dark ocean. After all, it is there lives a sea angel - beautiful and terrible.





Here is living proof of the existence of angels. What do you say, atheists?

Such a spectacular name went to almost ephemeral animals - their translucent carcass does not grow anymore 5 centimeters. A creature fluttering gracefully in the sea depths, is a relative of grape snails and slugs. Nautical the angel is an ancient clam. He threw away the mortal shell, remade his leg into wings and went to soar in the thick cold oceans.



The mollusk performs the mission of eradicating evil in harsh Arctic waters. The struggle of light and dark forces goes on deep at 500 meters. There, in the darkness, filled with spirituality the clam does what only angels can do - rid the world of hell. Sea devils - waterfowl snails, which are not lucky to coexist with enlightened mollusks. Because the cruelty of sea angels can be envied by the saint herself inquisition!





This is a sea bass. It looks creepy, but it's actually harmless. Unlike sea angel...

If in the Middle Ages the clerics had a fetish on red women and black cats, then our hero pursues exclusively sea devils - other molluscs of his are not satisfied. And god forbid you see it adorable creature in action! From an angel turns into a chthonic monster! His head is split into two parts, and three pieces come out of each half tentacles. With them, he grabs the frightened to death hell.



In reality, the transformation does not look as magical as the Winx fairies...

The monkfish has not lost its shells, but from the sea she won't save the angel. There is only a slim chance of salvation in the event that the devil managed to get into the very last turn of his house. If not, the snail will face imminent death.



The process of getting rid of evil has begun.

The eerie transformations of the angel do not end there. Expanding prey by the entrance to the mouth, a clam in the style of a stranger puts forward jaw studded with hard chitinous bristles. This torture the angel scrapes the devil out of the shell with the apparatus and grinds his grater-radula. From the unfortunate devil, only an empty one remains sink. Good has conquered evil. But what methods!



By the way, the sea angels themselves are from no one don't suffer. The mollusk secretes a special enzyme, which makes it tasteless, and for someone completely inedible. So that with the number of sea angels, complete order. Besides they breed like hell!



Love overtakes shellfish in spring and summer. Marine angels are hermaphrodites, and therefore with parental roles they are determined already in the process. The clam that decided to be mother, throws microscopic eggs in conveyor belts scale - more than 4.5 thousand eggs! baby sea angels just as ruthless as their parents. At the beginning they peacefully crumble phytoplankton. But after 4 days it happens metamorphosis, and the young larvae begin to nightmare... larvae sea ​​devils!