Earth’s alien world revealed in the top undersea photos of 2018

Ocean pictures, alien world

From Mashable

If something lives in the icy waters sloshing around Europa – a large Jupiter moon suspected to contain a salty ocean beneath its icy shell – perhaps it looks like the see-through, orange-speckled squids swimming in Hawaiian waters.

The top photos from the 2018 Ocean Art Underwater Photo Competition have been released, and they depict an alien world: a wall of sharks, a ceiling of rays, dancing seahorses.

Many of the alien photos were captured by divers well beneath the surface, which carries the challenge of lighting up the dark sea. But the efforts are illuminating, like a wide-eyed fish munching on the insides of jellyfish, and an exquisitely camouflaged angler – who looks like the very seafloor itself – though with an ominous mouth.

See the aliens that live on Earth.

“Devil Ray Ballet”

DUNCAN MURRELL/OCEAN ART COMPETITION

New Life

FLAVIO VAILATI/OCEAN ART COMPETITION

Ancistrocheirus

JEFF MILISEN/OCEAN ART COMPETITION

Timing

RICHARD BARNDEN/OCEAN ART COMPETITION

Polycera quadrilineata posing

FREDRIK EHRENSTRÖM/OCEAN ART COMPETITION

Roar

JINGGONG ZHANG/OCEAN ART COMPETITION

Discovering the Hidden Face of Yucatan

GUILLAUME NÉRY/OCEAN ART COMPETITION

Grey Seal Face

GREG LECOEUR/OCEAN ART COMPETITION

3 Baby Seahorses

STEVEN WALSH/OCEAN ART COMPETITION

La Siesta

JIN WOO LEE/OCEAN ART COMPETITION

Dancing Jellyfish

MELODY CHUANG/OCEAN ART COMPETITION

Inside the Eggs

FLAVIO VAILATI/OCEAN ART COMPETITION

Living in a Jelly

DORIS VIERKÖTTER/OCEAN ART COMPETITION

My Babies

FABRICE DUDENHOFER/OCEAN ART COMPETITION

The Fight

ANDERS NYBERG/OCEAN ART COMPETITION

Croc in the Mist

CHRISTINA BARRINGER/OCEAN ART COMPETITION

Burst

TYLER SCHIFFMAN/OCEAN ART COMPETITION

Budego

ALESSANDRO RAHO/OCEAN ART COMPETITION

Cannibal Crab

PT HIRSCHFIELD/OCEAN ART COMPETITION

Atlantic Spotted Dolphins

EUGENE KITSIOS/OCEAN ART COMPETITION

Face to Face

RAFI AMAR/OCEAN ART COMPETITION

Gentle Giants

FRANÇOIS BAELEN/OCEAN ART COMPETITION

Open Eyes

DORIS VIERKÖTTER/OCEAN ART COMPETITION

Spongy Sunburst

RENEE CAPOZZOLA/OCEAN ART COMPETITION

Chimaera

CLAUDIO ZORI/OCEAN ART COMPETITION

Find the rest of the winners from the 2018 Ocean Art Competition here.

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