Photo of the Day ~ Elephant Tang - Mission Blue

April 1, 2013

The newly discovered Elephant Tang, or Zebrasoma flavescens elephantiasis, uses his long, proboscis-like snout to borrow deep into the reef in search of small crustaceans and other sustenance. The myriad of life forms created by evolution will never cease to amaze us!

4 thoughts on “Photo of the Day ~ Elephant Tang”

tara says:

April 3, 2016 at 11:26 am

I want one

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Mel M says:

April 2, 2016 at 5:30 am

April fool’s

Anyway if it were real it would be God creating, not ‘evolution’.

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David says:

April 1, 2016 at 5:57 am

Great April fool!

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