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Marine Biology
Marine Biology: the scientific study of organisms in the sea. Given that in biology many phyla, families and genera have some species that live in the sea and others that live on land, marine biology classifies species based on the environment rather than on taxonomy. The habitats studied in marine biology include everything from the tiny layers of surface water in which organisms and abiotic items may be trapped in surface tension between the ocean and atmosphere, to the depths of the oceanic trenches, sometimes 10,000 meters or more beneath the surface of the ocean. Specific habitats include coral reefs, kelp forests, seagrass meadows, the surrounds of seamounts and thermal vents, tidepools, muddy, sandy and rocky bottoms, and the open ocean (pelagic) zone. The organisms studied range from microscopic phytoplankton and zooplankton to huge cetaceans (whales) 30 meters (98 feet) in length.
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DEC 17, 2017Videos
There's a lot of buzz on the internet about how captive killer whales' collapse, but the same phenomenon happens in wild ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 14, 2017Plants & Animals
Narwhals have become somewhat famous because of that catchy Weebl’s Stuff song. While these unicorns of the sea lo ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 12, 2017Plants & Animals
Most people have watched, or at least heard of, the movie Jaws. While it’s a classic fan-favorite film, it also pa ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 06, 2017Videos
Residing some 26,830 feet (more than 5 miles) below the ocean's surface in a natural depression known as the Mariana Tre ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 04, 2017Plants & Animals
If you’ve ever seen a scallop before, then you can probably attest to how non-complex they look at first glance. T ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 22, 2017Plants & Animals
Dolphin behavior may not be too far off from human behavior in some aspects, and contemporary scientific research is beg ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 21, 2017Plants & Animals
Curious researchers based out of Oregon State University’s Marine Mammal Institute tagged 63 blue whales with moti ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 13, 2017Videos
Seahorses mate and reproduce quite differently than most other fish in the sea. It all starts with a romantic encounter ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 13, 2017Plants & Animals
If you follow animal conservation, then you might be familiar with the vaquita. It’s an elusive porpoise native to ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 09, 2017Plants & Animals
Climate change can have a larger impact on animals around the globe than we realize, and a new study published in the jo ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 02, 2017Plants & Animals
It’s a sad week in Shizuoka Japan after a record-breaking captive dolphin named Nana reportedly passed away at the ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 01, 2017Plants & Animals
Investigations are ongoing after more than 130 deceased Baikal seals have washed up on the coast of the landlocked Lake ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 31, 2017Plants & Animals
A new study published in the journal PLOS ONE by researchers from the University of Bordeaux in France highlights that o ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 18, 2017Plants & Animals
Both alligators and sharks are renowned for their predatory statuses in the animal kingdom, but when they come together ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 26, 2017Plants & Animals
Animal lovers won’t like hearing one bit og this, but Japan formally announced this week that it slaughtered 177 w ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 25, 2017Plants & Animals
In case you’ve never heard of a terrible practice called shark finning, it’s essentially where people catch ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 22, 2017Plants & Animals
Sleep is such an essential thing that you and I can’t live without it, and many other animal species are the same ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 21, 2017Videos
A new 'octopus city' is turning our understanding of how octopi co-exist with one another upside-down. While researchers ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 21, 2017Plants & Animals
Some of the best-known animals on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)’s Red List are sea tur ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 19, 2017Plants & Animals
If you need another reason to clean up after yourself rather than trashing the beach, then look no further than this poo ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 12, 2017Earth & The Environment
A new study published in the journal Elementa has taken a look at the seasonality of sea surface temperature trends alon ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAUG 31, 2017Earth & The Environment
How much can 1 degree really hurt? A new study published in Current Biology has just answered that question, and the res ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAUG 18, 2017Plants & Animals
Animal conservation researchers are making history by performing the first ever major health assessment of endangered wh ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 09, 2017Plants & Animals
Conservationists track a broad range of animals in the wild with GPS trackers, and penguins are no different. On the oth ...Written By: Anthony Bouchard
DEC 17, 2017
Videos
There's a lot of buzz on the internet about how captive killer whales' collapse, but the same phenomenon happens in wild
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 14, 2017
Plants & Animals
Narwhals have become somewhat famous because of that catchy Weebl’s Stuff song. While these unicorns of the sea lo
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 12, 2017
Plants & Animals
Most people have watched, or at least heard of, the movie Jaws. While it’s a classic fan-favorite film, it also pa
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 06, 2017
Videos
Residing some 26,830 feet (more than 5 miles) below the ocean's surface in a natural depression known as the Mariana Tre
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 04, 2017
Plants & Animals
If you’ve ever seen a scallop before, then you can probably attest to how non-complex they look at first glance. T
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 22, 2017
Plants & Animals
Dolphin behavior may not be too far off from human behavior in some aspects, and contemporary scientific research is beg
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 21, 2017
Plants & Animals
Curious researchers based out of Oregon State University’s Marine Mammal Institute tagged 63 blue whales with moti
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 13, 2017
Videos
Seahorses mate and reproduce quite differently than most other fish in the sea. It all starts with a romantic encounter
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 13, 2017
Plants & Animals
If you follow animal conservation, then you might be familiar with the vaquita. It’s an elusive porpoise native to
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 09, 2017
Plants & Animals
Climate change can have a larger impact on animals around the globe than we realize, and a new study published in the jo
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 02, 2017
Plants & Animals
It’s a sad week in Shizuoka Japan after a record-breaking captive dolphin named Nana reportedly passed away at the
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 01, 2017
Plants & Animals
Investigations are ongoing after more than 130 deceased Baikal seals have washed up on the coast of the landlocked Lake
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 31, 2017
Plants & Animals
A new study published in the journal PLOS ONE by researchers from the University of Bordeaux in France highlights that o
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 18, 2017
Plants & Animals
Both alligators and sharks are renowned for their predatory statuses in the animal kingdom, but when they come together
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 26, 2017
Plants & Animals
Animal lovers won’t like hearing one bit og this, but Japan formally announced this week that it slaughtered 177 w
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 25, 2017
Plants & Animals
In case you’ve never heard of a terrible practice called shark finning, it’s essentially where people catch
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 22, 2017
Plants & Animals
Sleep is such an essential thing that you and I can’t live without it, and many other animal species are the same
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 21, 2017
Videos
A new 'octopus city' is turning our understanding of how octopi co-exist with one another upside-down. While researchers
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 21, 2017
Plants & Animals
Some of the best-known animals on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)’s Red List are sea tur
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 19, 2017
Plants & Animals
If you need another reason to clean up after yourself rather than trashing the beach, then look no further than this poo
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 12, 2017
Earth & The Environment
A new study published in the journal Elementa has taken a look at the seasonality of sea surface temperature trends alon
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
AUG 31, 2017
Earth & The Environment
How much can 1 degree really hurt? A new study published in Current Biology has just answered that question, and the res
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
AUG 18, 2017
Plants & Animals
Animal conservation researchers are making history by performing the first ever major health assessment of endangered wh
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 09, 2017
Plants & Animals
Conservationists track a broad range of animals in the wild with GPS trackers, and penguins are no different. On the oth
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard