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Malaria, Bedbugs, Sea Lice, and Sunset “Doing my small part to preserve ocean biodiversity while advancing the vast left wing conspiracy and queer, godless agenda.”
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Sustainable Ocean Project “Changing the way we think about our oceans.”
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CephalopodCast “Science info + Ocean info.”
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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 [...]
That seems like a fun question. And, worthwhile, especially since we wrote about the best beach movies this winter. But…Are we talking non-fiction or fiction? Let’s just say for the sake of relaxation you are asking about fiction. I can name some that come to mind, but, would love to hear feedback from others as [...]
Czech … oceánu
Dutch … ocean
Bulgarian … океан
Filipino … karagatan
Finnish … meressä
German … ozean
Hungarian … ocean
Indonesian … samudra
Italian … oceano
Latvian … okeāna
Lithuanian … vandenynas
Maltese … oċean
Polish … oceanu
Portuguese … oceano
Spanish … océano
Turkish … okyanus
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Here are some clues:
Lives at the surface of the ocean.
It is only one cell.
It is an animal that eats, breathes and moves like any other animal.
The blue rays in the center hold algae.
You can find it at the American Museum of Natural History.
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Some products need a little something extra to basically hold it together. Certain ice creams, lip sticks and even beer use a derivative of red seaweed, called carrageenan, to emulsify the products.
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As paleontologically-inclined artist and author Ray Troll likes to say, people—and by extension, all mammals—are just really complicated fish. Since mermaids are widely believed to be the optimistic misapprehension of common manatees by sadly sea-addled sailors, the fish species most closely related to mermaids would be…well…us, mammals.
But we’ve only scratched the surface here. Check [...]
Nope, here is a short list of terms used to describe certain groups of ocean animals when they congregate together.
Jellyfish swim in a smack.
Whales swim in a pod.
Herring swim in a seige.
Penguins walking together on land is called a waddle.
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In the most amateur sense you would call yourself a shell collector…However, considering the fact that you are not just collecting for the sake of collecting (although you may be), but to study the specimens (even if it may be in the most primitive sense), therefore, you can call yourself a conchologist.
A person that studies [...]
