marine life
Monday, July 25, 2011
GRAY WHALE!
The gray whale is up to 15 or 16 meters long. With the weight of 35 tons. They have a long slender head. The gray whale is a baleen whale which means it feeds by straining food through it's baleen plates in the jaw. The upper jaw has coarse yellow baleen. The gray whale has a slate grey body with lighter patches and mottling, scattered patches of white barnacles and orange whale lice. The scientific name for the gray whale is Eschichitus robutus. The gray whale lives around 50-70 years and is a mammal.
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
moon jellyfish!
Aurelia labiata also known as moon jellys, moon jellies, moon jellyfish, common jellyfish, and saucer jelly. This jelly fish is usually translusent (clear) and usually 20-40 centimeters in diameter. It eats medusae, plankton and mollusks.
jellyfish!
Jelly fish also known as jellies, sea jellies and Medusozoa a free swimmind members of the phylum Cnidaria. jellyfish have several morphologies that repesent several different cnidarian classes including Scyphozoa (over 200 species), Staurozoa (about 50 species), Cubozoa (around 20 species), and Hydrozoa (about 1000-1500 species that make jellyfish and many more that do not). Jellyfish are found in every ocean, from the surface to the deep sea. Some jellyfish are very colorful and some have no color. Some can sting you and some can not even hurt you.
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