Creature Features
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Grunt sculpiin Rhamphocottus richardsonii This sculpin often hides inside and empty casing of a giant acorn barnacle. When it turns around and waves its orange tail, it looks like a barnacle that’s feeding. SIZE: to nine centimetres long WHERE IT LIVES: intertidal to 200 metres WHAT IT EATS: tiny fish, fish eggs CRITTER CLUE: also called the ‘northern seahorse’, it looks lie a seahorse and walks along the ocean floor on its pectoral fins 
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