A beautiful and amazing fish that looks like it's straight out of Finding Nemo is the lionfish. The lionfish is brightly colored to advertise its poisonous spines. Therefore, predators tend to stay clear. The colored decorations of the fish serve another purpose as well: they let the lionfish blend in with the surrounding reef and not be noticed until it moves. This allows fish to swim close enough for the lionfish then to trap them with its large fins then gulp them down whole. God did an amazing work with the lionfish to make a beautiful creature that incorporates its beauty into its camouflage as well as its defense mechanism.More fishy fun:
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