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4 days ago · The recent population collapse of the generalist invertebrate mesopredator Pycnopodia helianthoides (hereafter Pycnopodia) due to sea star wasting disease has been implicated as a contributing factor to the proliferation of the grazing purple urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, after its release from Pycnopodia predation across much of the west coast of North America (Burt et al., 2018; Galloway et al., 2023; Hamilton et al., 2021; Harvell et al., 2019).
2 days ago · Sponges (also known as sea sponges), the members of the phylum Porifera (/ p ə ˈ r ɪ f ər ə ˌ p ɔː-/ pər-IF-ər-ə, por-; meaning 'pore bearer'), are a basal animal clade as a sister of the diploblasts.
17 hours ago · Atlantic Ocean, body of salt water covering approximately one-fifth of Earth’s surface and separating the continents of Europe and Africa to the east from those of North and South America to the west. The ocean’s name, derived from Greek mythology, means the “Sea of Atlas.”
- Covering approximately one-fifth of Earth’s surface, the area of the Atlantic Ocean without its dependent seas is approximately 31,568,000 square m...
- The Atlantic Ocean has an average depth (with its seas) of 11,962 feet (3,646 meters) and a maximum depth of 27,493 feet (8,380 meters) in the Puer...
- The outstanding feature of the floor of the Atlantic Ocean is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, an immense median mountain range extending throughout the len...
- The surface waters of the North Atlantic have a higher salinity than those of any other ocean, reaching values exceeding 37 parts per thousand in l...
- The Atlantic Ocean provides millions of tons of fish and other seafood annually for human consumption, including lobster, haddock, cod, mackerel, h...
3 days ago · gCaptain’s full coverage of Houthi attacks on Red Sea ships and Israel from Yemen.
2 days ago · STORY: Beneath the surface of Japan’s Sagami Bay are heaps of spiky, black sea urchins.:: Zushi, JapanResearchers say the population here is booming – and that while sea urchins naturally ...
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4 days ago · Echinoids, or sea urchins (oursins [French], Seeigel [German], erizos de mar [Spanish]) constitute a group of exclusively marine invertebrates inhabiting the intertidal down to the deep-sea trenches. They are characterized by a globose or flattened skeleton known as a test.
1 day ago · Battle 3 deep-sea monstrosities. A Pre-Packaged Efficient Water Jets Unit and a Hypnotic eye. ... Somewhere in that system will be a planet with a purple hue. This indicates corruption, and you ...