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Each year, over a million Gulf corvina swim to their spawning grounds along the Colorado River Delta. These fish are famous for their loud,...
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With a lifespan of just 18 months, giant cuttlefish are known to 'live fast and die young'. For a few months each year about 12km across a bay from...
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Today there were some special guests just outside our Island Bay Marine Education Centre. A family of up to 10 orca delighted onlookers when they...

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19 May 2017
This worm snail's slime-ejecting tentacles have won it comparisons to the web-slinger, but the species seems to be more villain than superhero in the...
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This little girl Elephant Fish was born last month.   She hatched out of one of the eggs given to us by our friends at NIWA.  She's...

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19 May 2017
Omega Oil Supplements are some of the most popular today found on the shelves of health food stores. Full of omega three and omega six, these oils...
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The Homo sapiens view of our world is all a matter of perspective, and we need to remember that we’re among the larger creatures on Earth. At around...
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The tentacle boom is an unexpected outcome of climate change in the oceans. Over the past 60 years, the population of cephalopods—octopuses, squids,...
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Our feature creature this month is the Pygmy Octopus (Octopus huttoni).   They're called "pygmy" because they only...

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6 Jun 2016
An unusual sea creature that looks like a strange hybrid of frog and fish and even has some bird like resemblance at a certain angle, has washed up...
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