Archive for September, 2009
Sand from islands or tropical sites have sand that is high in Calcium, since seashells are rich in Calcium and are broken down to form sand there.
Inland lake, river, stream and pond sands are high in Silicon, since rocks are composed of various types of silicates which break down to form sand there.
Most of the [...]
Can you guess the common name designated to the animal pictured to the right?
Here are some facts about the critter:
Found in Antarctica
Has watery-jelly like flesh
Lives in the deep part of the ocean
Image (c) of newscience.com
It may not come as a surprise, but, a lot of my friends and family consider George Costanza as the most famous marine biologist they know. Long before Seinfeld, Jacques Cousteau, the world’s most well known deep sea explorer, made studying marine science seem fun and not as intimidating as people once thought.
So here are [...]
Environmental News Network sent a news release out today about a new report that states how Orca orca may die off if the numbers of king salmon continue to drop.
The research was published in the Royal Society Biology Letters. The leading cause of the death of the killer whales is actually “nutritional stress” from not [...]
A hurricane develops due to the hot, hot air temperatures of summer moving along the hot, hot ocean. This collision of heat joins forces to form a mass of air and water that starts swirling, blowing, sinking and rising in a path that you see on the weatherman tracking device.
You probably begin paying attention to [...]
