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Dealing With Jellyfish While Scuba Diving
Jellyfish are a common encounter when scuba diving. They look innocent, but most can deliver a sting from just mildly annoying to fatal.
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Simple skins- Hydra
Coelenterates like hydra and jellyfish are nothing but a bag of skin enclosing their body cavity which doubles up as a gut cavity. Their versatile skin is for - protection, movement, digestion, absorption, secretion, sensation, regeneration, reproduction, and even decision making and implementing these decisions. Impressed ?..please read on ..
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Jellyfish--Planktonic Predator
Jellyfish inhabit all the world's oceans and are often seen by swimmers and beachcombers alike. Here is a simple, informative look at a fascinating creature.
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Top Five Interesting Nudibranch Facts
Nudibranchs are amazing creatures with unique defense mechanisms and a variety of odd features. These creatures are certainly deserving of more attention.
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Boaters and Stinging Sea Nettles
Jellyfish stings can ruin the best boating trip or beach excursion. Learning about jellyfish sting prevention and treatment will make future trips more enjoyable.
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Scuba Divers And The Box Jellyfish Or Sea Wasp
The Box Jellyfish (Chironex Flecker) venom can kill a human inside three minutes. Scuba divers should be aware of the risks these animals present.
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Preventing Jellyfish Stings
Potions and lotions for sale, myths and home remedies on offer; there's only one reliable method of protection from the painful stings from contact with jellyfish.
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Can jelly really kill?!? (Freshwater Jellyfish)
"A sea creature, with a more potent venom then a cobra? More dangerous than a shark or a whale... moving in swarms with a population of a few thousand? I just can't believe it!!!"
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Sea Creatures 101: Jellyfish: A Water Ballet
Jellyfish-body construction, how and what they eat and what to do if you're stung by a jellyfish.
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Hardy Coral for the Aquarium
Zoanthids are an excellent, easy-to-keep coral for the beginning aquarist intent on adding color and interest to his or her mini reef.
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Jellyfish Kill Salmon
A dense pack of jellyfish drifted into salmon cages and killed the fish.
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Ouch!
Staying out of the way of marine creatures that can hurt you.
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Corals
A discussion of the basic characteristics of corals-Taxonomy, Anatomy, Ecology, Food and Feeding, Life Cycle, and Associated Fauna and Flora.
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