Over the years there have been numerous theories concerning the leaping of mullet. There seems to be two categories of leaping: predator avoidance and aerial respiration. Leaping to avoid predators usually involves more than one fish jumping simultaneously, retaining an upright posture and entering the water cleanly. The second type of leaping involves a single fish that does a slower, shorter leap, often flipping onto its side or even onto its back. They may also roll at the surface or move with their head above the water. The research of Hoese (1985) suggests that Sea Mullet use this second category of movements to fill the pharyngobranchial organ (an area at the back of the throat) with air. The trapped air is believed to allow the fish to remain active in water of low oxygen concentration for about five minutes. Several interesting lines of evidence support this theory. The number of jumps is correlated with the concentration of oxygen in the water. The less oxygen, the more jumps. Secondly, Sea Mullet feed during the day often in bottom sediments that have low oxygen concentrations. Jumping occurs much more commonly during the day. Sea Mullet rarely jump at night.

The gourami fish is found in a huge spectrum of colors. They have a stretched body with iridescent scales and males and females can be differentiated by color. The well-known dwarf gourami female is a silvery color while the male dwarf gourami is blue or red in color. Other species are blue, pink, green, gold, and many other colors. They have long fins and, in front of their pelvic fins, many species have a long feeler-like ray. One of the best gourami adaptations to take note of is their labyrinth. As they mostly lived in muddy and stagnant water, this acts as a lung and helps them to gulp in oxygen from the surface. The dorsal and anal fins of this fish are pointed and are longer in males. The fins on their abdomen are as long as their body and they regrow if broken.

The barreleye fish is a deep sea fish that is usually under 20 cm long (although some species can be larger). They live in the deep ocean depths where the sunlight can't reach. This type of environment often causes some unique adaptations. the barreleye fish has tubular eyes that protrude from their skull but are enclosed in their transparent dome. These type of eyes are very good at collecting any little bit of light that may be finding its way to the deep ocean depths. The eyes of the barreleye fish generally look up so they are able to detect slight movements in their prey directly above them. For awhile, scientists believed that the eyes could only look up but recent studies have indicated that the barreleye fish is able to direct their unique eyes forward to see what they are eating. These astonishing adaptations just go to show how incredible evolution can be and that there are no limits to an animals survival in this harsh world.

One of the reasons catfish can be found all over the world is because they can adapt to a wide variety of habitats. Catfish can be found in areas where the temperature is 95f (35c) and they can also survive at temperatures just above freezing. Typically when the water temperatures gets below 65f (18) catfish will slow down, conserve energy and may halt feeding, but hey have been known to be active year round even in cold temps.

Pacific beardfish (Polymixia berndti ), a species more commonly caught by deep-ocean trawlers than by anglers. Growing to around 20 inches long, they are one of the largest of the 10 species that comprise the beardfish family, Polymixiidae, which is a group of fishes closely related to alfonsinos and other deepwater red-colored fishes in the family Berycidae. The Pacific beardfish lives on muddy and sandy bottoms in waters up to 1,800 feet deep throughout the Indo-Pacific region, from east Africa to the Hawaiian Islands, north to Japan, and as far south as Australia. The scientific name Polymixia is derived from the Greek words poly (a lot of) and myxos (mucus), suggesting they are slimy little fish. Their common name, "beardfish," is of course due to the presence of the two prominent sensory barbels under the chin, which they use to "taste" for smaller fish and crustaceans as they swim over the sediments.

Christmas wrasses were named for their green and red coloration. They are also called ladder wrasses, 'awela (Hawaiian), and green-barred wrasses. Males and females exhibit sexual dimorphism in color, and may change color, and even sex, during their lives. Males in their terminal color phase are brightly-colored while females are green with black lines. The most brilliantly-colored male Christmas wrasses have reddish-pink background coloration on their body with ladder-like stripes that are bright blue and green in color. In its initial phase, a male has a diagonal dark red line below its eye. The head of the male is brown, orange or shaded with blue, while the head of females is spotted. Younger animals of both sexes are a more drab green and brown color. The Christmas wrasse's ability to change colors and sex has caused confusion over the years over species identification. It also looks similar to another species in a similar habitat - the surge wrasse (Thalassoma purpureum), which is similar in color, although there is a v-shaped mark on their snout which is absent in the Christmas wrasse.

The Newport Beach Christmas Parade is a magical event that happens each year with boats/yachts traveling down a route while decorated in fantastic lights. But how did this event come to be? In 1907, John Scarpa began a tradition by lighting boats decorated in Japanese lanterns and taking visitors around the bay. However, a year later on July 4th this would be expanded and turned into what is credited as the first lighted boat parade. This would eventually be known as the Tournament of lights in the early days with thousands of visitors and historians participating in a contest to see which boat was decorated better. Unfortunately this is the 1900s so in 1914 the event was put on pause because of something called world War 1. In 1919 Joseph Beek continued the event was back on and excluding a couple years for world war 2, the tournament of lights was held every year until 1949 because the old people were wary of the spectacle attracting so much foot traffic near the harbor. "But Disco this doesn't sound Christmas at all still, it's celebrated on July 4th you idiot" You might think and to that I say screw you buddy because in 1946 a separate group of people started attaching a Christmas tree to a decorated boat to float around on christmas and in later years Joseph Beek and his family were in charge of using their boats for the tree. Gradually more boats also decorated in lights would follow Joseph Beek's boat and the tradition would be come to be known as the Newport Beach Christmas Parade that features over 100+ vessels each year in Southern California, completely free to the public

The flowerhorn fish found a place in the hearts of the Taiwanese, who considered them harbingers of prosperity. Soon enough, a feng shui connect was established. The nuchal hump, or protruding forehead resembled the forehead of the Chinese God of longevity. Some of the fish's body parts matched other divine creatures, elevating its importance. The black markings on the sides sometimes look like Chinese alphabets. Its brightly colored appearance made it an attractive and coveted fish. Aggressive at first, these fish form a deep bond with their owners over a period as they get tamed, especially when the owners feed them with their hands. Its red eyes were known to cast the evil spirits away.

A siphonophore is not a single animal. It is a colony of four kinds of zooids. Zooids are very small, highly modified individuals. All the zooids in a colony are genetically identical. These zooids are specialized polyps and medusoids. Though structurally similar to other cnidarians, the zooids do not live by themselves: they are attached to each other. Each type of zooid is not self-sufficient. It depends for survival on the others doing what it cannot do by itself. So close do the zooids fit together that the colony looks like a single individual. It was a triumph of 19th century biology to discover the real nature of the siphonophores.

Since 2004, scientists worldwide have discovered 32 species of Osedax occurring at depths from 10 to 4000 meters. Various species are capable of colonizing a broad array of bones from fish, marine mammals, birds, turtles, and terrestrial mammals. These worms can consume bones very quickly, removing visual evidence of a sunken whale skeleton in as little as a decade. Osedax studies have led to new insights regarding carbon recycling on the ocean floor. Large food falls, like a whale carcass provides a huge pulse of food in an environment that tends to be food limited. The carcasses attract scavengers like sharks, hagfish, crabs, and smaller crustaceans such as amphipods who quickly consume the flesh. The exposed bones are then available to Osedax worms and bone-eating snails that digest the minerals and with the help of free-living and symbiotic microbes and consume the remaining organic compounds. Scientists have only begun to understand the ways in which carbon is recycled in the world's oceans and its relevance to climate change.