--- title: "Ocean Animals (Page 3 of 5) | AnimalTracks.wiki" description: "Master of open marine waters, balancing salinity through osmoregulation and traversing major planetary currents." image: "https://animaltracks.wiki/icon-512.png" canonical: "https://animaltracks.wiki/tags/ocean/page/3/" --- # Ocean Animals (Page 3 of 5) > Master of open marine waters, balancing salinity through osmoregulation and traversing major planetary currents. **107 species in this collection.** - [Goblin Shark](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/goblin-shark/) (*Mitsukurina owstoni*) - **Superpower**: Catapulting slingshot feeding mechanism that launches its jaws at up to 3.1 meters per second - **Musical Match**: Lustmord (Glacial Ambient & Drone Soundscapes) - [Goose Barnacle](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/goose-barnacle/) (*Lepas anatifera*) - **Superpower**: Makes a glue whose molecular adhesion differs from every other permanently gluing marine animal studied to date - **Musical Match**: Air (Trip-Hop & Velvet Downtempo) - [Great Barracuda](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/great-barracuda/) (*Sphyraena barracuda*) - **Superpower**: A scissor-like bite that cuts prey in two - **Musical Match**: Melt-Banana (Mathcore & Chaotic Noise) - [Great Cormorant](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/great-cormorant/) (*Phalacrocorax carbo*) - **Superpower**: A fast, agile underwater swimmer with wettable feathers and low buoyancy - **Musical Match**: Tom Tom Club (Classic Funk, Soul & Disco) - [Great Scallop](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/great-scallop/) (*Pecten maximus*) - **Superpower**: Numerous tiny eyes around the mantle edge, and a swim powered by clapping its valves - **Musical Match**: Fitz and the Tantrums (2010s Pop & Electropop) - [Great Torpedo Ray](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/torpedo-ray/) (*Tetronarce nobiliana*) - **Superpower**: Twin kidney-shaped electric organs that fire 170 to 220 volts, enough to stun or kill a fish and, from a large adult, to disable a person. - **Musical Match**: The Prodigy (Big Beat & 90s Acid Techno) - [Great White Shark](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/great-white-shark/) (*Carcharodon carcharias*) - **Superpower**: Ampullae of Lorenzini that detect electrical signals as faint as 0.005 microvolts, paired with regional endothermy that keeps key parts of its body warmer than the surrounding ocean. - **Musical Match**: Arch Enemy (Thrash Metal & Speed Metal) - [Green Humphead Parrotfish](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/green-humphead-parrotfish/) (*Bolbometopon muricatum*) - **Superpower**: Males headbutt rivals with loud, jarring impacts - **Musical Match**: Royal Blood (Heavy Psych & Garage Rock) - [Green Moray Eel](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/green-moray-eel/) (*Gymnothorax funebris*) - **Superpower**: A yellow mucus coat that protects it from parasites and bacteria, and a sense of smell it relies on to find prey at night - **Musical Match**: Ty Segall (Heavy Psych & Garage Rock) - [Green Sea Turtle](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/green-sea-turtle/) (*Chelonia mydas*) - **Superpower**: Navigates with a map that is at least partly based on Earth's magnetic field - **Musical Match**: Harmonia (Krautrock & Electronic Pioneers) - [Greenland Shark](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/greenland-shark/) (*Somniosus microcephalus*) - **Superpower**: It grows less than a centimeter a year, females aren't sexually mature until at least 156 years old, give or take 22, and its lifespan runs to at least 272 years, the longest of any known vertebrate. - **Musical Match**: Kali Malone (Glacial Ambient & Drone Soundscapes) - [Humpback Anglerfish](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/humpback-anglerfish/) (*Melanocetus johnsonii*) - **Superpower**: Swallows prey longer than itself - **Musical Match**: Andy Stott (Future Garage & Deep Electronica) - [Humpback Whale](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/humpback-whale/) (*Megaptera novaeangliae*) - **Superpower**: Five main feeding moves, including a "ring of foam" that surrounds prey before the whale dives under it and surfaces in the center, mouth open. - **Musical Match**: Explosions in the Sky (Post-Rock & Cinematic Orchestral) - [Immortal Jellyfish](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/immortal-jellyfish/) (*Turritopsis dohrnii*) - **Superpower**: Life cycle reversal: a damaged, starved or aging medusa becomes a cyst, then a polyp - **Musical Match**: M83 (Dream Pop & Shoegaze) - [Irukandji Jellyfish](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/irukandji-jellyfish/) (*Carukia barnesi*) - **Superpower**: Twitches its tentacles like fishing lures to draw in larval fish - **Musical Match**: Jon Hopkins (IDM & Glitch Ambient Synthesis) - [Jaguar](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/jaguar/) (*Panthera onca*) - **Superpower**: A skull-piercing bite that kills instantly, from jaws that get through thick reptile skin and turtle shells. - **Musical Match**: Bad Bunny (Latin Trap & Heavy 808s) - [King Penguin](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/king-penguin/) (*Aptenodytes patagonicus*) - **Superpower**: Carries its single egg on its feet for about 54 days, and tracked birds have dived past 240 meters. - **Musical Match**: Yann Tiersen (Neo-Classical & Baroque Chamber) - [Leafy Seadragon](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/leafy-seadragon/) (*Phycodurus eques*) - **Superpower**: Leaf-like skin flaps that don't seem to help it move, while small, almost translucent fins do the swimming and it sways like a plant in the current. - **Musical Match**: Bibio (IDM & Glitch Ambient Synthesis) - [Leatherback Sea Turtle](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/leatherback-sea-turtle/) (*Dermochelys coriacea*) - **Superpower**: Gigantothermy heat retention, and backward-pointing throat spines that help hold prey - **Musical Match**: This Will Destroy You (Cinematic Post-Rock & Ambient Crescendo) - [Leopard Seal](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/leopard-seal/) (*Hydrurga leptonyx*) - **Superpower**: Lobodont teeth that filter krill, and incisors that grip a penguin by the skin - **Musical Match**: Fear Factory (Industrial Metal & Cyber Thrash) - [Lion's Mane Jellyfish](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/lions-mane-jellyfish/) (*Cyanea capillata*) - **Superpower**: Tentacles speculated to trail up to 36.6 meters (120 feet); many authorities rank it the longest of all jellyfish. - **Musical Match**: Tim Hecker (Glacial Ambient & Drone Soundscapes) - [Magnificent Frigatebird](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/magnificent-frigatebird/) (*Fregata magnificens*) - **Superpower**: Non-Waterproof Flight and Mid-Air Food Piracy - **Musical Match**: The Black Keys (Classic Hard Rock & Southern Blues) - [Mahi-Mahi](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/mahi-mahi/) (*Coryphaena hippurus*) - **Superpower**: Grows over 4 feet long in its first year. - **Musical Match**: Alphaville (80s Pop & Dance Anthem) - [Marine Iguana](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/marine-iguana/) (*Amblyrhynchus cristatus*) - **Superpower**: Skeletal shrinkage of up to 20% during El Niño food shortages, and nasal glands that expel excess salt - **Musical Match**: Toots & The Maytals (First Wave Ska & Caribbean Rocksteady) - Previous Page: https://animaltracks.wiki/tags/ocean/page/2/ - 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