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It is one of the weirdest fish of the ocean: it has a human-like face, it sees binocularly (just like us) and it rather crawls into crevices than swims. This creature appears to make a new unknown family of fishes. The fish has been spotted off Ambon Island (Indonesia) and has tan- and peach-colored zebra-striping. T... |
4 April 2008
04:59 GMT |
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Biscayne National Park is located at the southeastern extremity of the North American continent, in southeastern Florida. It comprises 750 km²(300 mi²) of islands, clear waters, reef corrals and mangrove forests, preserving Biscayne Bay, one of the top scuba diving areas in the United States.The zone was declared a N... |
26 February 2008
09:41 GMT |
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The coral reefs form the largest biological structures on Earth. And the largest coral structure in the world is the Great Coral Barrier off the shore of northeastern Australia (parallel to the Queensland's shore), located in the Coral Sea: it is 2,010 km (1,200 mi) long and 2 to 150 km (1.2-92 mi) wide, which w... |
11 February 2008
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Corals really give a meaning to the notion that beauty is under the surface. That's the clearest seawater, a crystal clearness increased by the white sand. A coral reef is like a sea rainforest. Corals are colonies of polyps, small animals with a maximum diameter of 2.5 cm (1 in). The soft polyp is connected to... |
15 December 2007
04:24 GMT |
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That's the clearest seawater, a crystal clearness increased by the white sand. A coral reef is like a sea rainforest. Corals are colonies made up of polyps, small animals with a maximum diameter of 2.5 cm (1 in). The soft polyp is linked to its neighbor through living tissue covered by mucus. During the day, the... |
16 November 2007
17:23 GMT |
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Bali is a fiesta for the senses. There are kilometers of dreamlike beaches (with white sand in the south and black sand in the north and west) and crystalline waters, edging coral reefs, which contrast with the exuberant green of the picturesque terraces of paddy fields, in a equatorial island of just 5,632 km² (2,00... |
6 October 2007
05:40 GMT |
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Coral reefs are limestone accumulations, which represent the skeleton of the corals, being found in the warm waters of the oceans. The reefs are for the sea like rainforest on the ground: they harbor the highest marine biodiversity, thus the highest number of fish species: thousands of species in the worldwide reefs.... |
31 May 2007
15:26 GMT |
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As if pollution, global warming and overharvesting were not been enough, a new menace comes to complete the coral bleaching.A bloom of predator poisonous and spiny starfish, named crown-of-thorns is destroying large areas of coral reef throughout the Philippines. These voracious predators can wipe out large areas of ... |
16 April 2007
04:09 GMT |
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