To answer all of the awesome "hard questions" I was asked earlier: Aunt Diana: Tide Pools, or rocky intertidals, are defined in the wild as the area in between the highest tide and the lowest tide. They are home to a lot of amazing organisms, my favorite likely being the sea hare. We know a ton about tide pools, they are the smallest amount of ocean/marine life, but the most studied and understood, namely because of their ease of accessibility. Maria: Sea Stars eat in one of the coolest ways ever! They will use their tube feet on their undersides to grip their food (namely bivalves like clams and oysters, and detritus...dead stuff) and pry it open if they have to (in the case of their hard shell prey) Then, their stomach comes out of the center of their underside (their "mouth")and pulls all the om nom noms back inside itself. Andrea: Sea Monkeys are actually called Brine Shrimp. When they were marketed back in 1957 by Harold Von Braunhut he initally called his product "insta-life". He changed it in 1962, calling them Sea Monkeys because their "tail" resembled that of a monkey. Also, some marine animals have very deceiving names, namely because in science if you discover something, you get to name it whatever you want. For example, the sea hare is not hairy, nor does it look like a rabbit. The sea pig, likewise, is not a pig. We know this because Land pig bacon is delicious, while sea pig bacon "tastes like a fish farted on a dirty beach cracker." I had help referencing the answer to the last question, BTW.
Posted on: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 05:29:30 +0000
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