BBC - Earth News - In pictures: Icy jellies
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Hundreds of aggressive jumbo flying squid have appeared off the coast of San Diego, attacking divers and washing up dead on beaches.
"A coral reef is the canary in the cage as far as the oceans are concerned," said Attenborough, speaking after the meeting. 1/4 of the carbon dioxide is absorbed by our oceans,and is turned into carbonic acid,which is harmful to the environment of the coral reefs.... more
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Who knew? We have our own built-in GPS..we just need to train it. From the page: "After just a few days of training, the students had all acquired basic echolocation skills, the scientists report in the March/April 2009 issue of the journal Acta Acustica."
From article: "The Einstein of the fish world may be the nine-spined stickleback, suggests new research that determined this common European fish possesses an unusually sophisticated capacity for learning not yet documented in any other animal, aside from humans. "
Enormous Shark's Secret Hideout Finally Discovered
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It's a single cell, it's the size of a grape, and it propels itself across the ocean floor: Behold the Bahamian Gromia -- one of the strangest beasts yet discovered in the briny deep.
how fantastic...Jellyfish are my favorite animals and this is a truly dazzling creature that I was previously unfamiliar with!
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Good on you, BobbyVardar, for linking to this terrific collection of aquatic larval images. These all look like real life versions of the "artists draw kids' paintings" meme. This guy's my favourite, though their name can't possibly be as fun to... more