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Giant stingray caught in China
Oceanography

Giant stingray caught in China

Chinese fishermen have caught a giant stingray weighing more than a ton off the coast of Fujian province. After putting stingray on a boat on September 3, fishermen took…

December 17, 2018
Seals can become extinct due to climate change
Oceanography

Seals can become extinct due to climate change

Researchers at Duke University in the United States have found that ice in the breeding area of ​​this seal is decreasing by about 6% per decade over the past 30 years.

December 17, 2018
Track the narwhal in the Arctic
Oceanography

Track the narwhal in the Arctic

Information on the site mongabay.com said a group of scientists from the International Fund for Nature Protection in Canada (WWF-Canada) has attached a satellite signal…

December 17, 2018
Sea turtles are about to become extinct?
Oceanography

Sea turtles are about to become extinct?

In a statement (September 29), the World Animal Conservation Organization said that sea turtles living in marine areas of countries such as India, Bangladesh, and Sri La…

December 17, 2018
Fish 'live fossils'
Oceanography

Fish 'live fossils'

In 1938, a hand fin fish was found in African waters. Earlier, scientists believed that the fish had become extinct 65 million years ago with a prehistoric strain of pre…

December 17, 2018
Japan recorded fish species
Oceanography

Japan recorded fish species

The Oceanographic Museum in Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, announced that it has discovered and recorded a small fish belonging to the Ministry of finfish (Coe…

December 17, 2018
Whales can also die from melancholy
Oceanography

Whales can also die from melancholy

According to experts, over two decades of loosening the ban on whale hunting, the ocean's most majestic marine mammals have only recovered a bit of their once-thriving p…

December 17, 2018
Elephant birds are nocturnal and blind
Archeology

Elephant birds are nocturnal and blind

Researchers at the University of Texas say the bird, once living in Madagascar, is a nocturnal species and is likely to be blind, based on studying its brain shape.

December 17, 2018