SMITHSONIAN: TINY SHARK SPECIES by Brigit Katz
It may look like a tiny WHALE but it's a SHARK and it GLOWS IN THE DARK!
EXCERPT: The animal stretches just five and a half inches long and because of its bulbous head, looks a bit like a tiny whale, It has rows of small but sharp teeth, and like the 1979 specimen (which proved to be a different creature) two small pockets that produce a luminous fluid - a feature that may aid in attracting prey or eluding predators," according to the authors of the new study...
7/27/19
CHIMERA CRAB is 90 MILLION YEARS OLD (SEE THE FOSSIL) and LOOKS CARTOONISH
SCIENCE ALERT - FOSSILIZED CRAB "STRAIGHT OUT OF PIXAR" by Lindsey Bever of the Washington Post
EXCERPT: This crab sported a tiny lobster-eaque shell, with legs flattened like oars and huge Pound Puppies-style peepers that protruded from its head - a trait that indicates the creature used its eyes actively for whatever it did, researchers said. But its not only the critter's cartoonish appearance that has some researchers tickled, it's also what the ancient animal means to science.
EXCERPT: This crab sported a tiny lobster-eaque shell, with legs flattened like oars and huge Pound Puppies-style peepers that protruded from its head - a trait that indicates the creature used its eyes actively for whatever it did, researchers said. But its not only the critter's cartoonish appearance that has some researchers tickled, it's also what the ancient animal means to science.
7/25/19
GREY WHALE DEATHS LINKED TO CLIMATE CHANGE and WARMER OCEAN TEMPERATURES
PHYS ORG : GRAY WHALE DEATHS -STRANDED WHALES
by Lynda V. Mapes.
EXCERPT: As if gray whales didn't already have enough troubles, with transient killer whales preying on their calves as the mighty grays swim north in their annual migration from their birthing lagoons in Baja. But now, gray whale mothers in particular, depleted by the demands of lactation, are starving too.
by Lynda V. Mapes.
EXCERPT: As if gray whales didn't already have enough troubles, with transient killer whales preying on their calves as the mighty grays swim north in their annual migration from their birthing lagoons in Baja. But now, gray whale mothers in particular, depleted by the demands of lactation, are starving too.
7/1/19
SEA SHELL COLLECTION
Trying to find shells isn't as easy as it used to be.
In the past shell shops sold shells that had been dredged off the ocean floor.
This decimated their population and habitat.
Shell Collecting includes not only identifying the shell, but recording when and where it was found.
Siren here! It's April 2022 and I want to say that shell collecting that includes killing the sea creatures within the shell is harmful to the species as well as the entire ocean ecology.
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