Camouflage in sea creatures - top 10 ways to hide in ocean - includes bonus angel shark sand ambush!

Camouflage in the sea is a matter of life and death - hide to avoid being eaten - hide to catch a meal - from frogfish to pygmy seahorses, weedy sea dragons, glass squid and decorator crabs the sea has the best examples of camouflage in the animal kingdom and the angel shark - the best ambush predator of them all hiding in the sand! But what is at number one?

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Wikimedia Commons attributions as follows:

Seadragon clip: Lyn Gateley: User:Atlasowa/New video2commons/2017 November 21-30

Hairy Frogfish clip: Steve Childs via Wiklimedia Commons: https://www.flickr.com/photos/steve_childs/4097804812/

Photographs: Wikimedia Commons as follows:
Leafy Sea dragon: (orange white and blue) dro!d from atlanta, usa
Leafy Sea dragon (Yellow): Martin Cathrae from Charlottetown, PE, Canada
Weedy Seadragon: Katieleeosborne
Decorator crab (Achaeus spinosus): Richard Zerpe
Decorator Crab, undetermined species: Christian Gloor from Wakatobi Dive Resort, Indonesia
Decorator crab-Hyastenus elatus: Sylke Rohrlach from Sydney
Ornate Ghost Pipefish: Ornate Ghost pipefish: Barry Peters from Greer, SC
ornate ghost pipefish portrait, waitii ridge, wakatobi, 2018: q phia
File:Couple of Harlequin Ghost Pipefishes (Solenostomus paradoxus) (8491882233).jpg
Bernard DUPONT URL: https://www.flickr.com/people/65695019@N07 described at URL: https://www.flickr.com/photos/berniedup/8491882233/ operator: Flickr
Solenostomus paradoxus - Harlequin Ghost Pipefish (green pair)
Date 23 June 2008, 03:42:13
Source originally posted to Flickr as Solenostomus paradoxus - Harlequin Ghost Pipefish : Steve Childs
22 January 2019 English Whitemargin Stargazer (Uranoscopus sulphureus) URL: https://www.flickr.com/people/125265709@N08 author name string: Rickard Zerpe
English: Flatfish from the family Soleidae (true soles) camouflaged in the sand at Oceanário de Lisboa
Date 27 September 2016
Source Own work
Author Neitram
Crocodile Fish (Cymbacephalus beauforti)
Crocodile Fish
Date 8 August 2006
Source Flickr
Author Steve Childs from Lancaster, UK
Pygmy Seahorse: English: Hippocampus bargibanti (pink)
Depth: 27m
Site: Lobster Wall, Si Amil Island, Malaysia
Source Own work
Author Willphase
Pygmy Seahorse / Hippocampus bargibanti
Date 21 September 2015, 08:51
Source Pygmy seahorse
Author Christian Gloor from Wakatobi Dive Resort, Indonesia
Camera location 1° 29′ 12.39″ N, 125° 14′ 28.2″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.

All other Photographs: Adobe stock media (licenced)

All other video: Indoona /Hiddenpictures Ltd UK