kristen | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 18 2008 | sharks, fish, aquariums
I hate when every story about sharks has to invoke the "Jaws" word ... seriously, if you have ever watched a program on whale sharks you know that they are slow and quiet and they feed by swimming with their mouths open and catching what they can. Not exactly a man-killer. The media is just perpetuating a tired stereotype of sharks.
Quoted: It might have been the setting for a "Jaws" movie.
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Six snorkelers wading like ducks in a row, cruising just below the surface of the water while watching exotic fish dart beneath them. It was all very peaceful, until the mysterious whale shark appeared out of the deep blue.
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The whale shark is one of the most perplexing and elusive creatures in the ocean, still largely a mystery even to the marine biologists who have dedicated careers to studying the creatures.
kristen | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 09 2008 | fish, science, space
kristen | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 26 2007 | ocean, fish, environment, science
kristen | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 21 2007 | news, fish, ocean
Wow ... that's A LOT of jellyfish ... 10 square miles and 35 feet deep?!?
Quoted: Sky News - More than 100,000 salmon worth over £1m have been killed in a freak jellyfish attack.
It has wiped out Northern Ireland's only salmon farm and owners are now facing ruin.
The massive invasion happened at Glenarm Bay and Red Bay, Cushendun, off the Co Antrim coast.
Billions of small jellyfish called Mauve Stingers were involved - they stung and then stressed the salmon which were being kept in cages about a mile out into the Irish Sea.
kristen | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 16 2007 | fish, news, science
kristen | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 01 2007 | sharks, fish, news
kristen | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 27 2007 | algae, animals, fish, science
kristen | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 30 2007 | fish, science, news, food web
Ahh ... the food web. Didn't we learn about this in elementary school? Why is it news to people that removing a lead predator will have effects down the system?
Quoted: With most of the great predatory sharks -- bull, great white, dusky and hammerhead -- gone from northwest Atlantic waters, the rays and skates the sharks normally feed on had a population explosion, the scientists said in the journal Science.
kristen | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 30 2006 | news, fish
I think this article should be used by kids whose parents are trying to force fish on them as a "quiet pet". In all my time cleaning fish tanks, though, I never heard them make a peep.
Quoted: Increasingly scientists are discovering unusual mechanisms by which fish make and hear secret whispers, grunts and thumps to attract mates and ward off the enemy.
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