Animals

The giant sunfish is the heaviest bony fish in the world: its disk-shaped body can top three meters and two tons.

The spotted eagle ray is easy to tell by its dark back dotted with white spots, its pointed snout and its whip-like tail, far longer than its body.

The spinner dolphin comes to rest every morning in the lagoons of southern Egypt, where you watch it snorkeling.

The smooth hammerhead lives in the most temperate waters of its family and is recognized by the front edge of its head, rounded and without a notch.

The silky shark lives offshore; bronze and slender, with long sickle-shaped pectorals, it owes its name to the fine grain of its skin.

The scalloped hammerhead schools in the blue, away from the walls, often early in the morning, and the biggest schools pass Cocos Island, Costa Rica, from June to November.

You spot the regal angelfish by its blue, white and orange bands, then it darts into its crack as you approach.

The reef manta ray visits cleaning stations and glides over divers who stay calm.

The rainbow runner is an open-ocean jack, blue-green on the back, with a yellow band between two light blue lines, that streaks along in fast schools near the surface.

The pygmy seahorse grows to 2.4 centimeters at most and spends its life on a sea fan whose color it copies so well that it vanishes.