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Shark Warnings
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Take a dive into the world's oceans with Wild Chronicles. A team of oceanographers is issuing an important warning. Not a warning that we should fear for our safety, but for the safety of one the deep blue sea's most deadly creatures...Sharks. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp_HXzIL...
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Giant squid not just a sea monster myth anymore
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Okay, so I admit it. I grew up just a few miles from the ocean and I've always had an affinity for sea stories, especially stories of sea monsters. So, it is just the coolest that I saw this video on YouTube tonight. Remember the old stories of sea monsters that were giant squids bigger than a man? Not a myth...
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Conch Eyes
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Conch Eyes Stare into the squirrelly eyes of the conch. There are oodles of different types of this marine mollusk, some of which are true conchs, some of which have elaborate shells that lend themselves to use as horns by youths trapped on an island inhabited by pigs, and some of which have the crazy ey...
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Icefish
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Clever Little Icefish Anarctic icefish are the subject of study in the war against a host of bone diseases. It turns out that these fish, who live their entire lives in southern waters whose surface doesn't go above freezing, have some interesting traits. They have no red blood cells--a liability in...
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Spanner crab or frog crab
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The spanner crab (Ranina ranina, or frog crab) is found along the west and east coasts of Australia, and elsewhere in the Indian Ocean. It's got something of a tick appearance going on (as Jelo pointed out -- thanks for the photos). They are rare among crabs in that they walk forward as opposed to sidewa...
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Electric catfish
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Electric catfish appear in freshwater systems in tropical Africa. As their name would have you to believe, electric catfish are capable of electrical shocks. The 350 volt shocks are used to incapacitate their prey. Wikipedia Source
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The Blue Whale
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Amazon River
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nautilus
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The nautilus is the only shelled cephalopod. It's regarded as a "living fossil" (I ordinarily do not like the term, but find it appropriate here), as hundreds of millions of years ago they were more varied and far more prosperous. Today there are only six species of nautilus, all limited t...
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Mudskippers
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Mudskippers They're found in intertidal regions and in areas such as tropical mangrove swamps where fresh water meets salt water (I sense a folk song in there somewhere...). Think of them as the amphibious form of gobies--because that's pretty much exactly what they are. Amphibious fish? Yes, ma'...
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Strange New Species Found on Great Barrier Reef
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September 18, 2008--A comb jelly trips the light fantastic as it pulses off Heron Island onAustralia's Great Barrier Reef complex. The creature, which lacks the stingers of jellyfish, was among...
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Portuguese Man-of-War ...
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Portuguese Man-of-War Profile Anyone unfamiliar with the biology of the venomous Portuguese man-of-war would likely mistake it for a jellyfish. Not only is it not a jellyfish, it's not even an "it," but a "they." The Portuguese man-of-war is a siphonophore, an animal made u...
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Sea Cucumber
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Sea Cucumber Profile Sea cucumbers are echinodermslike starfish and sea urchins. There are some 1,250 known species, and many of these animals are indeed shaped like soft-bodied cucumbers. All sea cucumbers are ocean dwellers, though some inhabit the shallows and others live in the deep ocean. T...
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Hydrothermal Vents - David Attenborough
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Hydrothermal vents support life; this demonstrates just how resilient life can be. There are also a surprising diversity of life forms that inhabit these vents, despite the absence of sunlight and elevated pressures and deadly heat. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LoiInUoRMQ&a...
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Goblin shark
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Goblin Sharks This is of the rarely seen goblin shark (Mitsukurina owstoni). -- Edited by Dj_Rubbut at 19:43, 2008-08-30
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Sarcastic Fringehead
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Source: here Fore more info see : 1 2 3 Sarcastic Fringehead Neoclinus blanchardi is an ambush predator, described as both pugnacious and aggressive (pugnacious isn't used nearly enough in the English language). I've searched around, but I can't find why it's called the sarcastic fringhe...
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Frogfish
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Frogfish Theyre a family of anglerfish that use some of their fins to walk around the ocean floor, but what I particularly like about them is that they are great at camouflaging themselves to not be detected by their prey. They appear in a large number of great colors and patterns, and range from lumpy t...
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Banana Slug
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See more at: http://uglyoverload.blogspot.com/ Slime and Razor Blades These mollusks get to be about 8 inches long and produce a thick slime if you pick them up. According to Wikipedia, this slime (which is difficult to wash off your hands) permits them even to travel across a razor blade. I'm not su...
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Octopus with more than 8 legs
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See more at: http://uglyoverload.blogspot.comOctopus with a Rasta Hat What kind of octopus wears a rasta hat? And why can't I be that diver? Come on, you cephalopodophiles, identify this one for me. There are between 650-700 species of cephalopods in the world, roughly a third of which are octopi (...
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Grunters and Singers
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See more at: http://uglyoverload.blogspot.com/ The midshipman fishand I have something in common: me both use excessive and ceaseless vocalization to court our mates. This fish (Poricthys notatus),, is a native of the Pacific Coast of North America.. They are also known as "grunters,&qu...
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The Jelly Fish Invades..
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A Tropical Fish Feed...
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The Curious Harbor Seal...
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The Butterfly Fish Experience...
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A great white shark leaps to catch its prey...ay caramba!
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PLANET EARTH – Great White Shark Jump @ Yahoo! Video
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Pygmy Seahorses
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Bull Sharks Hunt
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Tiger Sharks vs. Turtles
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Dolphin Parenting
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Freaks of Nature: Giant Bizarre Fish
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