Not exact matches
A variety
of organisms can be found on and around the Channel Islands, from top predators like bald eagles and sharks, to intertidal residents such as
seastars and barnaces, to the tiniest parasites living on other animals and plants.
A variety
of organisms can be found on and around the Channel Islands, from top predators like bald eagles and sharks, to intertidal residents such as
seastars and barnacles, to the tiniest parasites living on other animals and plants.
Dive in the beautiful emerald waters
of the Pacific Ocean and discover the abundance
of local marine life including octopus, seals,
seastars, anemones, king crabs and so much more!
The acidification
of oceans may well be the most insidious and pervasive threat to life in the oceans everywhere, simply because so many different plants and animals that play key roles in ecosystems will likely be affected — coccolithophores, pteropods, corals, mollusks (clams, mussels, oysters, snails), echinoderms (urchins,
seastars), arthropods (lobsters, crabs, shrimp), etc., etc..
That said, the creatures we do know
of are some
of the weirdest and most wonderful around; case in point, this beautiful firebrick
seastar (Asterodiscides truncatus) photographed in Australia by John Turnbull.