Just keep swimming, little one. This wavy sheet of nothingness is actually a baby moray eel.  M

Just keep swimming, little one.

This wavy sheet of nothingness is actually a baby moray eel. 

Morays start out life as an extremely thin, nearly-transparent larva called a leptocephalus, which literally means ‘small-headed’. They are adorably pathetic, really.

The whole point of the leptocephalus is to go places. Adult morays are generally poor swimmers, so they spend most of their time bumming around andbeing adorable, and they rarely stray far from home. But as leptocephali, young morays take to the high seas, allowing the currents to carry their frail and fragile bodies to distant landsreefs. 

Over generations, this childhood wanderlust has allowed morays to disperse across most of the Pacific, while maintaining close population relatedness over such great distances.

Video source: Kanaal

Reference:Reeceet al.2010.