News

Hello again. It’s been very busy for us at the Marine Education Centre with a news article in the Wellingtonian about the “little one.” On that...
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Looking like something from the deep, this gooseneck barnacle encrusted boat has journeyed from the tsunami battered shores of Japan to the coast of...
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Stigmatophora longi-rostris
Jules found lots of these guys and gals in the Harbour yesterday.  He ...

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8 Jun 2014
A new study has demonstrated that some corals are able to acclimatize rapidly to rising sea temperatures, acquiring the same level of heat tolerance...
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Around 100 million years ago, grass from land adapted to live and reproduce while submerged in seawater—the modern-day seagrasses. This sea invasion...
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Fossils found in Greenland in 2009 show that a strange, shrimp-like species which lived 520 million years in the Cambrian seas went from being an...
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Marine specialists in Auckland, New Zealand are fighting the spread of the rapidly-multiplying Mediterranean fanworm with a new weapon — a prototype...
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A new burrowing robot for anchoring miniature submarines has been developed - inspired by the humble razor clam. "RoboClam" could be used to lay...
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This has been an amazing month for the egg. The development has taken a huge step forward to the point where we can see the little guy or girl with a...
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Industrial fishermen throw back one out of every five animals they catch, many of them dead or dying, leading to massive waste and threatening...
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