One of the coolest videos I have ever seen in a science course was in highschool. It was a timelapse video of a seal that had died getting eaten by other animals in a coral reef. Within a minutes small animals started picking away at the carcass then a few bigger animals passed by and took big chunks out of the seal. The coolest part of the video for me was seeing the starfish walk over and begin to eat the seal carcass. I didn’t even know that starfish were carnivorous, now thinking about it though it makes sense that they are. I managed to find the video on youtube to rewatch it. It really is incredible how the organisms in the coral reef don’t let a carcass go to waste. There was another really cool video of a whale carcass that had fallen to the bottom of the sea. Sharks had clearly taken big pieces before it even hit the ocean floor. Once it did deeper dwelling sharks began to take pieces of whale then came the eels. The eels ate away at the carcass until only bones remained. The circle of life was really beautifully captured in both of these videos. In death these animals gave other life.
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