White bass (Morone chrysops) is a freshwater fish. White bass are native to the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River, southern Ontario and Quebec in Canada, the American Midwest, and the Mississippi River area as far south as Louisiana and…
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The basics of any career in marine begins with the basic definition of what marine biology consists of. It is the study of marine organisms. It is very comprehensive. It includes how the organisms interact with the environment, all about…
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November 14, 2013 Physical Science
After 35 years, Voyager I has truly gone “where no man has gone before” or at least no man made object. When the spacecraft was launched in 1977, scientist hoped to receive information about Jupiter and Saturn. No one had…
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The gulper shark (Centophorus granulosus) is a deep water shark that tends to live at depths of between 200 and 1200 meters. They are known to reach 5 feet as a maximum length, and feed mainly on small fishes and…
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The problems faced by a fish in freshwater are the opposite of those faced in saltwater. The physiological strategies fish use to deal with both these problems are called osmoregulation. This is the clue to how it works – “osmo-”…
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” The barnacle is a shrimp-like animal standing on its head in a limestone house and kicking food into its mouth with its feet.”, according to Louis Agassiz, the Swiss-American naturalist, succinctly summing up a few of the interesting facts…
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Zooplankton are the tiny animals that float around on the surface of the ocean and feed on the microscopic plants that make up the phytoplankton, or on each other. They are so small that they cannot easily be seen and…
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Water, be it salt water, fresh or even seasonal bodies of water, wherever you find it you will find plankton. Plankton is not one type of organism but is a rich, living soup of two groups of ingredients, zooplankton and…
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The bull shark (Carcharhinus leucas) is one of the more common large shark species that can be found in many coastal areas in warmer waters. They are also known to be one of the most dangerous species of shark to…
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Most people tend to think that sea spiders are merely some kind of spiders that live in the sea, however this isn’t the case at all. In actual fact sea spiders are completely unrelated to land spiders, and are only…
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