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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
Long-term monitoring update to condition of the Great Barrier Reef
Feeling helpless about the Great Barrier Reef? Here’s one way you can help
Exceptional fish diversity found on Australia’s north-west oceanic shoals
More intense cyclones pose threat to the world’s coral reefs
Shark study reveals taste buds were key to evolution of teeth
Marine Science facts
- 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
- Half the Oxygen we breath is produced in the Ocean
- The most remote point in the oceans is called Point Nemo
- The Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian oceans are known as the three major oceans.