Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The marine life found in the Canary Islands is interesting, being a combination of North Atlantic, Mediterranean, and endemic species. In recent years, the increasing popularity of both scuba diving and underwater photography have provided biologists with much new information on the marine life of the islands.
A humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) A leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx). Marine mammals are mammals that rely on marine (saltwater) ecosystems for their existence. They include animals such as cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoises), pinnipeds (seals, sea lions and walruses), sirenians (manatees and dugongs), sea otters and polar bears.
Between 1950 and 2008, 352 tiger sharks and 577 great white sharks were killed in the nets in New South Wales—also during this period, a total of 15,135 marine animals were killed in the nets, including dolphins, whales, turtles, dugongs, and critically endangered grey nurse sharks. [159]
This led to the extinction of the Steller's Sea Cow and the Caribbean monk seal. [3] Today, populations of species that were historically hunted, such as blue whales Balaenoptera musculus and B. m. brevicauda), and the North Pacific right whale (Eubalaena japonica), are much lower compared to their pre-exploited levels. [4]
Almost two dozen great whites were spotted by the U.S. Coast Guard Oct. 16 off Pacifica, a coastal community near San Francisco.
In the deep sea, large siphonophores are found swimming. In the mesopelagic zone, Glass squid hide using their transparency. Even deeper, a gulper eel is shown gulping a mouthful. At the ocean floor, a large group of pearl octopus protect their eggs. Hydrothermal vent animals are filmed, including tube worms.
Get excited for the 35th official Shark Week, from July 23 to July 29, with these shark facts.
Scientists spotted a rare “Dumbo” octopus over 5,500 feet deep in the waters off the Hawaiian islands.. The creature, named after the Disney cartoon for the large pair of flapping fins ...