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10/03/2013
Top 10 Prehistoric Fish Alive Today
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Top 10 Prehistoric Fish Alive Today - Listverse This list is about fish that were around in remote, prehistoric times and have survived to our days, still keeping the "prehistoric" looks to prove it. Feel free to mention those I have excluded in the comments.
10/02/2013
Top 10 Unearthly Creatures of the Deep
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Top 10 Unearthly Creatures of the Deep - Listverse The deep sea is the lowest layer of the ocean, at a depth of 1800m or more. Little or no light penetrates so deep; it was therefore thought historically th
09/17/2013
Franklin search waiting for new high-tech tools
Parks Canada is spending $475,000 to buy two high-tech research tools it hopes could help crack the mystery of the lost 19th-century ships of the Franklin expedition and reveal other sunken secrets of the country's underwater cultural heritage.
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Franklin search waiting for new high-tech tools Parks Canada is spending $475,000 to buy two high-tech research tools it hopes could help crack the mystery of the lost 19th-century ships of the Franklin expedition and reveal other sunken secrets of the country's underwater cultural heritage.
09/13/2013
Right now, the Schmidt Ocean Institute's research vessel Falkor is off Vancouver Island, where Canadian researchers are collecting video records of life found in and around low-oxygen, acidic waters that form naturally in the area. The remotely operated vehicle is in the water and heading to the seafloor, so tune in!!
LIVE from RV Falkor The main mission for the expedition?s second l ... Streaming live video and data from HROV Nereus ...
09/09/2013
A newly discovered volcano that sits below the Pacific Ocean is the largest volcano on Earth—and one of the biggest in the solar system.
New Giant Volcano Below Sea Is Largest in the World Called Tamu Massif, the giant shield volcano had been thought to be a composite of smaller structures, but now scientists say they must rethink long-held beliefs about marine geology.
09/03/2013
Mystery circles on the seafloor have intrigued divers for decades, and scientists have recently identified the culprit: a new pufferfish species. Get the facts about the ocean architect.
Explaining Animal Behind Mystery Circles There are 120 pufferfish species in the Tetraodontidae family. The fish live in warm, coastal waters around the world, and some even live in fresh water. They tend to have tapered, torpedo-shaped bodies with bulbous heads and large eyes.
09/02/2013
Untamed Antarctica
Untamed Antarctica They'd heard about the wild winds that lash icy Queen Maud Land. But this team of hard-core climbers got more than they bargained for.
08/30/2013
Video: Deep-Sea Squid Goes Fishing in the Dark
Video: Deep-Sea Squid Goes Fishing in the Dark | Science/AAAS | News The two wimpy tentacles dangling from the squid species Grimalditeuthis bonplandi have long baffled marine biologists. How can the creature use these long, unusually nonmuscular projections—which also lack hooks or suckers—to capture prey? The first videos of the squid in its deep-sea environment st...
08/29/2013
Fukushima: At the Very Least, Your Days of Eating Pacific Ocean Fish Are Over
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Fukushima: At the Very Least, Your Days of Eating Pacific Ocean Fish Are Over We’re writing this post becasue we feel that it is extremely import for everyone be aware of this crisis, and it’s not being reported on. In our entire month in the US, we did not see this in the mainstream media and hardly anyone knew about it.
08/28/2013
With many shark species facing deep declines across the world's oceans, India has moved to outlaw one of the most pernicious and cruel threats they face.
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India bans shark finning Conservationists hope that the measure will help to stabilize declines among shark species at risk of extinction, some of which have been reduced to a mere 10 percent of what they were a few decades ago.