"Also known as sea cows, these herbivores enjoy lives as uneventful as their land-based bovine counterparts: Because they consume plants living in the intertidal zone, they have no need to dive to great depths in search of food so the waters they most inhabit are shallow and warm. And they are so large that they are not threatened by any other animals, except tiger sharks which only occasionally venture into shallow water..." Rachel Sullivan
Sailors may have seen sea cows and thought "mermaids," but only if they were hallucinating!
10/25/10
10/22/10
US SANTA BARBARA STUDENT LOOSES LEG TO SHARK
Shark sightings reportedly are common off Surf Beach.
"Surfers like the area, especially on a day like today when the break is head high and smooth. But they say they see sharks," Clay Garland, head ranger at Jalama Beach, told the Times.
"Surfers like the area, especially on a day like today when the break is head high and smooth. But they say they see sharks," Clay Garland, head ranger at Jalama Beach, told the Times.
10/20/10
DOES THE SEA LIFE YOU TOUCH in A HANDS ON EXHIBIT DIE FROM TOO MUCH HUMAN CONTACT?
Ever pick up the same starfish a couple hundred other people did that day and wonder if it will live after so much human contact, being taken up out of the water and into the air?
Do aquariums and other exhibitions pick species that are hardy or out of danger of extinction, knowing that these specimins will die?
I wonder.... Siren
Do aquariums and other exhibitions pick species that are hardy or out of danger of extinction, knowing that these specimins will die?
I wonder.... Siren
10/17/10
MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM
MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM site is also a little virtual vacation... and you can click around until you get to the CHANGE FOR THE OCEANS VIDEO.... really beautiful!
10/13/10
STUCK FAR INLAND? A VIRTUAL VISIT OF THE LONG BEACH AQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC
Click around this AQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC SITE until you find the SHARK LAGOON... There's an online learning center link too!
10/8/10
SEA MONSTERS ON OLD MAPS OF THE SEA
OLD MAPS of the sea often show sea monsters. Today I wonder if these monsters were placed in unknown waters or about fear. Where they simply whales? Were there other species out there in the ancient oceans that are now extinct?
10/4/10
10/2/10
DO YOU HAVE A FANTASY ABOUT BEING A MERMAID or A WHALE?
Do YOU have a fantasy about being a mermaid, merman, perhaps a sea creature like a whale or dolphin, or a starfish?
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