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Ocean Fun Fact

Hawaiʻian fishponds or loko iʻa, are a sophisticated method for raising a steady source of food that is accessible during storms and high surf when fishing can be dangerous. Perpetuating traditional fishpond practices is important to create more sustainable food resources in Hawaiʻi and ensure that such advanced cultural knowledge is not lost

Though it sounds like something out of a Halloween movie, ghost-fishing is actually a serious problem. Ghost-fishing occurs when abandoned or lost nets and traps continue to catch animals, leaving then to die in the nets. Ghost fishing nets are a common source of marine debris that causes the needless death of numerous marine animals. Remember to properly dispose of all your netting when fishing!

Can you imagining putting a person in a time capsule and then opening it up 80 million years later to discover that they’re still alive? Scientists have found a bacterial colony buried 100 feet deep in the Pacific Ocean floor that hasn’t received light, oxygen, or food for over 80 million years, and they’re still alive! A very slow metabolism and dividing to make identical copies of themselves allow these bacteria to survive for so long.

Sea urchins might be using their feet to see! Researchers have found that sea urchins have light receptors on their tube feet - hundreds of tiny suction-like tubes which help them to move around. Next time you are out surfing or tide pooling take a closer look at these amazing creatures - but don’t touch!

The mimic octopus is an incredible animal that can impersonate the appearance and movement patterns of a lionfish, crab, jellyfish, and many other animals. However, scientists have recently found a small jawfish whose coloration copies the mimic octopus, mimicking one of the octopus’ arms!

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Recent Blog Post

Evolution as "survival of the laziest"?

Published 2018-09-18

Photo: University of Kansas Evolution by natural selection is often described as “survival of the fittest”, but a new study suggests that some organisms may have a different evolutionary strategy for success: laziness. In the journal, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, researchers provide evidence that species with lower energy requirements may be less likely to go extinct. In the study, the researchers analyzed the metabolic rates of 299 species of bivalves and gastropods in the Western Atlantic, both extinct and extant. They found that during a 5-million-year period, high... (more)