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Marine biology is the scientific study of the organisms that live in the sea, home to countless strange and wonderful creatures. Marine life helps determine the very nature of our planet. Marine biologists today use available tools in their study of the sea. Much remains to be learned, and the oceans remain a realm of great mystery and excitement.

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Sea stars, sometimes called as starfishes have five arms that radiate from a central disk, though some have more than five, sometime close to 50. Hundreds of tube feet protrude from the oral surface ...

Domain: Biology; Category: Marine biology

Kelps are the most complex and largest of all brown algae found in sea. Most kelps are found below the low tide level in temperate and subpolar latitudes. These kelps grow in great abundance, ...

Domain: Biology; Category: Marine biology

The zone lacking oxygen, muddy bottoms, and sediments with absolutely no oxygen are said to be anoxic. This anoxic zone has more organic material to decay and use up oxygen. Secondly, the flow of ...

Domain: Biology; Category: Biogeography

A specific type of learning in which animals learns that when it performs a particular behaviour it gets a reward, usually a fish. Dolphins, killer whales, and pilot whales in captivity quickly learn ...

Domain: Biology; Category: Zoology

Sponges are best described as aggregations of specialized cells. These are among the structurally simplest multicellular animals. Almost all sponges are marine. They live permamently attached to the ...

Domain: Biology; Category: Marine biology

Eelgrass is widely distributed in temperate and cold waters of the Pacific and North Atlantic. It is most common in shallow waters, sometimes exposed at low tide, but has been found at depths of up ...

Domain: Biology; Category: Marine biology

Squids are prominent members of the midwater community. Some swim weakly while other strong-swimming squids are part of the nekton. The vampire squid looks something like an octopus but is neither a ...

Domain: Biology; Category: Marine biology

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