Capable of growing into thickets up to five feet high and more than 30 feet across, staghorn corals produce long, cylindrical branches out of bases anchored to the ocean floor. Staghorn corals can ...
from the icy waters of the Arctic and Antarctic to warmer tropical seas. The first recorded account of these ocean creatures dates back to the ancient Romans, who observed these animals in their ...
They survived solely by eating microscopic animals trapped by their stinging ... violent storms were triggered by the warmth of tropical oceans. The Silurian drew to a close with a series of ...
More than 150 false killer whales have been stranded on an isolated beach in the Australian state of Tasmania, with rescue crews trying to save the majority of the large dolphins that survived the ...