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Marine Ecology
Ecology is the study of the relationships that organisms have with each other and with their natural environment. Marine ecology is simply ecology applied to marine biota and the marine environment.
Marine Science News
The deepest-dwelling fish in the sea is small, pink and delicate
Why do shark bites seem to be more deadly in Australia than elsewhere?
Understanding the feeding role of tiger sharks
El Niño in the Pacific has an impact on dolphins over in Western Australia
Study uncovers value of shark dive tourism
Marine Science facts
- Half the Oxygen we breath is produced in the Ocean
- Irukandji jelly fish, with just a brush of venom leaves almost no mark. But after about a half hour you develop Irukandji syndrome, a debilitating mix of nausea, vomiting, severe pain, difficulty breathing, drenching sweating and sense of impending doom. You get so sick that your biggest worry is that you’re not going to die
- The most remote point in the oceans is called Point Nemo
- The Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian oceans are known as the three major oceans.