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Tag: marine biology
The Survival of the Sea Turtle
Sea turtles are miraculous. First, they’ve been around since the late Jurassic, roughly 150 million years ago. Cohorts of the dinosaurs, sea turtles have survived through the challenges of eons, existing still today, where many others have ended their evolutionary run. Second, throughout the centuries and up till today, every living adult sea turtle has[…]
Continue ReadingTurtle GPS – Science Nation
MILES O’BRIEN: Its time for this young Loggerhead Turtle to go to work. KEN LOHMANN: We can tether turtles in these little cloth harnesses. Put them into this tank and theyll swim in place. MILES O’BRIEN: University of North Carolina Biologist Ken Lohmann studies sea turtles that are programmed from birth for an extraordinary journey.[…]
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Mucky Secrets – Part 5 – Snake Eels & Moray Eels – Lembeh Strait
Grandmothers go underwater to uncover population of lethal sea snakes
Grandmothers are very supportive to me, to my work and I know that they are special. I realise that every day when I meet them and it’s nice to have people that are not scientists to get so much interest in the results of my work.
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Why Don’t Sharks Have Bones?
Hello! This week is Shark Week on the Discovery Channel, which some of us here on the internet aren’t huge fans of, so instead of sensationalizing sharks or just making stuff up about megalodons still existing, we thought we’d talk about science with the understanding that reality is actually pretty fascinating. Sharks and rays and[…]
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