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Natural hook
Oceanography

Natural hook

The pressed fish has the scientific name Echeneis naucrates, often distributed in warm waters of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Ocean. If they are not attaching themse…

December 17, 2018
Detecting strange fields in the deep sea
Oceanography

Detecting strange fields in the deep sea

Ocean explorers have discovered a vast field deep in the ocean that extends from the Arctic to the Indian Ocean, receiving energy with only hot water and is rich in stra…

December 17, 2018
Eggs store eggs under the arm
Oceanography

Eggs store eggs under the arm

A species of squid has been found carrying hundreds of eggs in its arms. This is the first species of squid known to take care of their calves after laying off. Normally…

December 17, 2018
Ugly sharks
Oceanography

Ugly sharks

Orectolobus ornatus is a slow shark that lives on the seabed. They camouflage to avoid large fish and also use camouflage to hunt. Bad fish: flat body, meat

December 17, 2018
Gasterosteus sticklebacks
Oceanography

Gasterosteus sticklebacks

Sticklebacks have 3 hard spines on their backs: 2 long spines long, and the third short. My body is about 10cm long, although this fish does not have scales, they have s…

December 17, 2018
Hammerhead sharks
Oceanography

Hammerhead sharks

The scientific name is Sphyrna mokarran, this fish has a hammer-like head. That strange rafting head is probably an adaptive way to help them detect prey more easily: wh…

December 17, 2018
Ocean and new discoveries of medicine
Oceanography

Ocean and new discoveries of medicine

Recently, scientists have caught the SNX 111, a carnivorous mollusk that has a poisonous stinger that paralyzes the prey. This toxin can be prepared into a pain reliever…

December 17, 2018
Is coral an animal or a plant?
Oceanography

Is coral an animal or a plant?

Corals are coral class marine organisms (Anthozoa) that exist in the form of small polyps like anemones, often living in populations of many identical individuals.

December 17, 2018
Vietnamese corals are comparable to world corals
Oceanography

Vietnamese corals are comparable to world corals

With the number of 400 different species of corals belonging to 80 species, 17 different families, the marine coral fauna of Vietnam is comparable to the most diverse co…

December 17, 2018
Predict the state of the oceans
Oceanography

Predict the state of the oceans

Providing global forecasts about the state of the oceans within 15 days, similar to the atmosphere: that's the Mercator project's ambition. The Mercator project was foun…

December 17, 2018
Discovering new marine pests
Oceanography

Discovering new marine pests

A group of British and Swedish scientists have discovered a new marine worm on a whale in the North Sea, on Swedish waters.

December 17, 2018
Learn about sea lilies
Oceanography

Learn about sea lilies

Sea lilies (Endoxocrinus parrae) bear this name because they resemble a flower that hangs on the ocean floor. However, according to US researchers, this is a echinoderm…

December 17, 2018
Half of the world's atolls may disappear
Oceanography

Half of the world's atolls may disappear

An environmental protection organization warns that half of the world's atolls may disappear within 40 years. The World Organization for the Protection of the World has…

December 17, 2018