Green Anemone Hermit Crabs Tide Pool
Several hermit crabs on a beautiful green anemone at low tide. More cartoon sea animals at www.lillyarts.com. Taken at Cabrillo National Monument ...
Trivia: The Great Barrier Reef
- The single largest structure in the world, it's made of coral colonies built by billions of tiny living organisms, known as coral polyps. It's essentially a mass of limestone, made from the skeletons of millions of marine animals and plants.
- There are hard corals and soft corals, which are built by invertebrate polyps. Coral polyps extract limestone from the sea water, using it to build the outer, protective exoskeleton. Most corals get their energy through algae that live within their tissue, and need sunlight, thus growing in shallow clear waters.
- Since their scientific names are so long and boring, and really who can remember all that anyway, corals are mostly referred to by the way they look - like plate, boulder, vase, brain or stag horn.
- The most common types of reefs found here are the Ribbon, Platform and Fringing reefs.
- The reef is composed of a staggering 2,900 individual coral reefs and 900 islands. That's bigger than Italy.
- The largest protected marine area in the world, the reef is home to unimaginable numbers of marine wildlife and supports 400 types of coral, more than 1,500 species of fish, 3,000 species of molluscs, 30 species of whales, porpoises and dolphins, 500 species of seaweed, 14 species of sea snakes, 6 species of sea turtles, 215 species of birds and large populations of dugongs.
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Book review: 'For All the Tea in China' by Sarah Rose Book review: 'For All the Tea in China' by Sarah RoseGardeners know him as the explorer who brought to the West such lovely ornamental plants as winter jasmine, tree peonies and the Japanese anemone. |
