The box jellyfish is the most dangerous, venomous marine animal known to man. It is known to have killed more than five dozen people, with many more suffering painful stings from this blue creature of the sea. The box jellyfish,…
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Mecoptera belong to the Kingdom of Animals, the Phylum of Arthropoda, the class of Insects and the Order of Mecoptera (Scorpion flies, Hangingflies, and Allies). This order of insects have about 550 species in nine families around the world. These insects…
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Jellyfish are intriguing beings from their life cycles to the way that they carry out basic life functions. Jellyfish are classified in the pylum Cnidaria. Also grouped into this category are sea anenomes, hydras and corals to name a few….
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The Trichoptera, or Caddis Flies, are an order of small insects best known for their case-making aquatic larvae. There are about 12,000 known species. The adults look like small, hairy moths, usually drab brown or grey and quite cryptic. They are usually seen around…
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The numbers of different types of jellyfish seems to vary according to different sources, from a few hundred to over a thousand. In reality, there are literally thousands of different types of jellyfish in the world’s oceans and seas. There are…
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Leatherback sea turtles, one of the world’s endangered marine species, have come to nest on many of the world’s isolated beaches for thousands of years. Theirs is a nesting process that can primarily be seen well after dark, and can…
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The insect order Mecoptera is comprised of over 550 species including the scorpion flies, hanging flies, and earwigflies. They are small to medium sized, thin insects with long slender antennae. Their heads extend into a long beak with biting mouthparts…
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The trichoptera insect order consists of numerous species of moth-like insects called caddisflies that grow to be less than one inch long. Caddisflies get their nickname from their body-shielding case-making habit. The insects have two sets of hairy wings, aquatic…
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Dolphins are highly intelligent mammals. They belong to a family that includes orcas and pilot whales. They have a long history of interacting with people on boats, in the oceans and in captivity. In the wild, they form close-knit family…
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Sonar is a method for detecting and locating things submerged in water by sending out sound waves, then listening to the echoes that result when the sound waves bounce off an object. The process is also called echolocation. Dolphins don’t…
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