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Sharks Daily Life

A new shark tracking device reveals the day-to-day activities of lemon sharks. The life of most marine animals is a bit of a mystery—it’s pretty hard...

Victor

12 Jun 2018

Could Venomous Sea Snails Help Opioid Epidemic?

Opioids are powerful pain relievers, but their addictive nature also creates powerful trouble for those who misuse them. Worldwide, millions of...

Victor

30 Apr 2018

Sharks' Secret Weapon

Sharks have a secret weapon in their snouts that helps them hunt prey. It's an organ that can sense faint electrical signals given off by other,...

Victor

30 Apr 2018

Astronauts of the Sea

How argonaut cephalopods evolved their own architecture to return to the open ocean. Cephalopod molluscs, the group of animals that includes...

Victor

3 Apr 2018

Flippers Not Fingers

Flippers, not fingers: Sea turtles’ surprising feeding strategies. Imagine you’re trying to eat a snack—a tasty sustainable fish taco, let’s say. But...

Victor

1 Apr 2018

Deepest Antarctic Dive

Footage of the ocean floor around Antarctica has revealed that instead of being a cold, icy, wasteland, it's actually completely full of life...

Victor

15 Mar 2018

Ravenous Kingfish Hit Port Stephens Marine Park

There are fears thousands of "ravenous" kingfish that escaped a state government jointly-run fish farm off Port Stephens will devastate the marine...

Victor

13 Feb 2018

Microplastics Threat to Marine Megafauna

Tiny ‘microplastic’ particles pose a major threat to the world’s biggest species of megafauna – and may even be killing some of them, marine...

Victor

13 Feb 2018

Bait House Aquarium Opening Every Sunday

We're celebrating our first Open Sunday at the Island Bay Bait House Aquarium December 12th 2021 since the change...

Victor

1 Dec 2021

Do Lobsters Feel Pain?

Lobsters may be one of the most popular crustaceans in the culinary arts. But when it comes to killing them, there’s a long and unresolved debate...

Victor

22 Jan 2018

Nice little place they have down there by the water. Good place to go for a quick and fun outing. Interesting seeing all the various types of marine life they have in one building.

Archie

The Island Bay Marine Education Centre's Bait House Aquarium is an interactive marine experience based in Island Bay on Wellington's south coast.There are lots of different sea creatures on display including a couple of octupuses, sea horses, lobsters to name a few. You can also gently touch and handle starfish, sea cucumbers, sea anemones, crabs and other sea life found in the local rock pools outside.There's far more inside than you would expect. The volunteers and expert staff are very friendly and helpful. It is really reasonably priced and we were all entertained for ages. Really good fun and educational too. Definitely worth checking out with the family.

Haydn