Marine Biology Articles

• Dolphins and Whales
  Mammals
  Animals
  Endangered Animals
  Marine Biology
  Sea Life
   
  

  Bowhead Whale

  The Bowhead Whale, also known as Greenland Right Whale or Arctic Whale, is a marine mammal of the order Cetacea. Bowhead Whales are the only baleen whales that spend their entire lives in and around ... > more
• Dolphins and Whales
  Early Mammals
  Sea Life
  Marine Biology
  Animals
  Early Humans
   
  

  Evolution of cetaceans

  The cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoises) are descendants of land-living mammals, and remnants of their terrestrial origins can be found in the fact that they must breathe air from the surface; ... > more
• Global Warming
  Fish
  Geography
  Marine Biology
  Oceanography
  Ecology Research
   
  

  Antarctic krill

  The Antarctic krill is a species of krill found in the Antarctic waters of the Southern Ocean. Antarctic krill are shrimp-like invertebrates that live in large schools, called swarms, sometimes ... > more
• Fish
  Fisheries
  New Species
  Nature
  Marine Biology
  Ecology Research
   
  

  Seagrass

  Seagrass (or sea-grass in British English) are flowering plants from four plant families that grow in the marine saline ... > more
• Birds
  Fish
  New Species
  Nature
  Marine Biology
  Endangered Animals
   
  

  Seabird

  Seabirds are birds that spend much of their lives, outside the breeding season at least, at sea. Whilst the seabirds vary greatly in lifestyle, behaviour and physiology, they often exhibit striking ... > more
• Fish
  Marine Biology
  Wild Animals
  Animals
  Molecular Biology
  New Species
   
  

  Cuttlefish

  Cuttlefish are animals of the order Sepiida, and are marine cephalopods, small relatives of squids and nautilus. Cuttlefish have an internal shell, large eyes, and eight arms and two tentacles ... > more
• Nature
  New Species
  Extinction
  Animals
  Ecology
  Endangered Plants
   
  

  Giant clam

  The Giant Clam (Tridacna gigas) is the largest living bivalve mollusc. One of a number of large clam species native to the shallow coral reefs of the South Pacific and Indian oceans, they can weigh ... > more
• Fish
  Fisheries
  Marine Biology
  Wild Animals
  Nutrition
  Sea Life
   
  

  Pufferfish

  The puffer fish, also called blowfish, swellfish, globefish, balloonfish, bubblefish are fish making up the family Tetraodontidae, within the order Tetraodontiformes. They are named for their ability ... > more
• Frogs and Reptiles
  Endangered Animals
  Marine Biology
  Sea Life
  Zoology
  Fisheries
   
  

  Turtle

  Turtles are reptiles of the order Testudines (all living turtles belong to the crown group Chelonia), most of whose body is shielded by a special bony or cartilagenous shell developed from their ... > more
• Ecology Research
  Nature
  Endangered Plants
  Soil Types
  Marine Biology
  Organic
   
  

  Wetland

  In physical geography, a wetland is an environment at the interface between terrestrial ecosystems and aquatic systems. In essence, wetlands are ecotones. Wetlands are typically highly productive ... > more
• Fish
  Fisheries
  Marine Biology
  Healthy Aging
  Sports Medicine
  Wild Animals
   
  

  Salmon

  Salmon is the common name for several species of fish of the family Salmonidae. Several other fish in the family are called trout. Salmon live in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, as well as the ... > more
• Healthy Aging
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Sports Medicine
  Nutrition
  Fish
  Fisheries
   
  

  Herring

  Herrings are small oily fish of the genus Clupea. There are 15 species of herring, the most abundant of which is the Atlantic herring, Clupea harengus. Herrings move in vast schools, coming in spring ... > more

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