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Pic o' The Week: Lizardfish Nabs Surgeonfish

Check out this remarkable photo! @manta_luke saw this carnivorous fish moment while on a work dive -- and quickly snapped this pic!

It’s a fish-eat-fish existence in our world’s ocean. Luke Gordon was on a work dive for Manta Project Fiji when he witnessed nature’s savage food chain, suddenly and up close. “… [while] finishing a safety stop after a 90+ minute research dive, suddenly a flash of colour happens below. I could see what it was and I was NOT going to miss this opportunity. I could see the lizardfish struggling to…

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Naming Contest: Thanks to support from the New England Aquarium, scientists with the Manta Trust recently tagged several manta rays. They're hoping to find out where these ocean giants go when they're not wooing scuba divers. 

Now they're giving the Aquarium community a chance to name two of the females. Submit a name on this Facebook post by Tuesday. Our Conservation Department will select the winners, who not only will have a special connection to two graceful animals cruising the oceans, the winners also get a plush manta ray from the Gift Shop.

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Fieldwork can be as tough as it is magical. Could you stick through the frustrations?