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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
FactFile: the facts on shark bites and shark numbers
Whale sharks gather at a few specific locations around the world – now we know why
Sea Shepherd calls for Shark Net Removal in Queensland
Tiny plastics are potentially dangerous for turtles too
4 things you didn’t know about white sharks
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.