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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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APR 17, 2016Microbiology
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We're fans of the creative types of people who use their camera-equipped drones to capture amazing videos of nature and ...Written By: Anthony Bouchard
APR 17, 2016
Microbiology
The tree of life, which depicts how life has evolved and diversified on the planet, is getting a lot more complicated. R
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
APR 15, 2016
Plants & Animals
A YouTube video recently went viral from diver Steve Winkworth that shows what appears to be a Godzilla-like creature fo
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 14, 2016
Plants & Animals
The New Zealand Aquarium recently discovered the loss of an octopus that managed to escape from its tank through a crevi
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 09, 2016
Plants & Animals
A 58-year-old deep sea diver by the name of Wayne MacWilliams decided to go for a deep sea dive off of the coast of Palm
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 08, 2016
Plants & Animals
Late last month, fishermen off of the coast of Cabo, Mexico pulled a mysterious creature out of the water just a mile aw
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 07, 2016
Videos
Any organism will show changes at the cellular level when stressed. Depending on what the stress is and what the organis
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAR 21, 2016
Plants & Animals
Here’s something you don’t see every day: an albino gray whale. One known to the region around Mexico as &ld
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 17, 2016
Plants & Animals
Following continued criticism that Orca (killer) whales in SeaWorld face mistreatment during their captivity and shows,
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 16, 2016
Plants & Animals
New research around the Madagascar oceanic regions conducted in November of last year suggests that a rare species of wh
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 13, 2016
Plants & Animals
When you think of man’s best friend, you probably immediately think “dog” in your mind, but for a man
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 11, 2016
Plants & Animals
Coral reefs are facing more threats than just climate change. Sodium cyanide, which can be crushed and turned into a tox
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAR 10, 2016
Plants & Animals
A pair of grey seal twin pups born in Norfolk, England may just be the first ever of their kind ever recorded in the his
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 08, 2016
Plants & Animals
Scientists exploring the depths of the ocean off of the coast of Hawaii have reported discovered what they believe to be
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 03, 2016
Technology
Australia is about to get high-tech and serious when dealing with search and rescue missions related to shark attacks of
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 01, 2016
Plants & Animals
For the first time, researchers have managed to catch a squid using its inking abilities to baffle prey it intends to ca
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
FEB 29, 2016
Plants & Animals
Conservation efforts to preserve the Florida manatee appear to be working well. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Con
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
FEB 28, 2016
Plants & Animals
Researchers from John Hopkins University have recently spent their time studying a very strange type of sea snail that a
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
FEB 25, 2016
Plants & Animals
A relatively rare La Plata baby dolphin off the coast of Santa Teresita, Argentina has reportedly passed away after bein
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
FEB 23, 2016
Plants & Animals
This big, long creature recently washed up on an Australian coast at the Sawnsea boat ramp. Although it looks like it co
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
FEB 17, 2016
Plants & Animals
Following their typical path of migration patterns from cooler to warmer waters, tens of thousands of black tip sharks h
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
FEB 10, 2016
Plants & Animals
Unusually white-colored animals are making headlines a lot lately, such as a white great white shark that washed up on a
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
FEB 09, 2016
Videos
It's not every day that you see a shark eating another shark, but for some aquarium goers in South Korea, it was quite a
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
FEB 09, 2016
Microbiology
Scientists have found traces of life in mantle rocks in core samples taken from the seabed near the famous Lost City hyd
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
FEB 08, 2016
Videos
We're fans of the creative types of people who use their camera-equipped drones to capture amazing videos of nature and
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard