Some 350 species of this creature form the Great Barrier Reef
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Great Barrier Reef Animals - Fish, Whales, Corals and more  For more information on some of the main types of marine life that attract millions of visitors to the Great Barrier Reef from around the globe each and every year...
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Great Barrier Reef: Facts, Location & Animals - Live Science  Sep 14, 2012 ... This sprawling coral reef north of Australia is the largest natural structure on Earth. Thousands of species of animals make it their home.
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Australia's Great Barrier Reef - North Queensland - Information ...  Cairns and the Great Barrier Reef represents some of the finest and most exotic ... The Great Barrier Reef is the most extensive structure ever built by living creatures and the ... The 540 islands of the Great Barrier Reef are of two distinct types, ... life including 1,500 species of fish, 350 different kinds of coral, 4000 species of...
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Creatures of...the Great Barrier Reef | Ian Somerhalder Foundation  3 There are approximately 350 species of hard coral that make up the over ... while many of the creatures are not harmful, some creatures very well could be...
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12 Cool Facts About the Great Barrier Reef - Small World Journeys  The Great Barrier Reef stretches 2 300km from the Torres Strait to just north of ... 350 types of hard coral and a third of all the world's soft corals;; 5,000 to 8,000 ... and all sorts of creatures at the Great Barrier Reef on some of our cool reef trips:.
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Land of Giants | Discovery Reptiles's Blog  Feb 26, 2010 ... There are stories from tribes deep in the heart of the Amazon Basin of Giant ... There are over 2,900 species of Snakes in the World but only around ... There have never been any records of Boa Constrictors reaching 20 feet long. ... Salt Water Crocodiles can reach 25 feet long and almost 3000 pounds and...
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O.R.G. Educational Film: - Oceanic Research Group  The reef itself is a living, growing organism- a colony of tiny animals all working ... Ever so slowly, over hundreds, or thousands of years, the coral polyps add ... In order to get additional nutrients, many corals have become symbiotic with a ... In time, a giant new coral reef community will arise from these humble beginnings.
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Corals and Coral Reefs | Smithsonian Ocean Portal  Coral reefs are the most diverse of all marine ecosystems. ... substrate and become polyps after a few days or weeks, although some can settle within a few hours! ... But because corals are colonial, the size of a colony can be much larger: big ... of thousands of these starfish, with most of the coral killed in less than a year.
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Great Barrier Reef - Pictures, More From National Geographic ...  From tiny coral polyps grew a marvel: Australia's Great Barrier Reef. ... Not far beneath the surface of the Coral Sea, where the Great Barrier Reef lives, ... This mammoth reef owes its existence to organisms typically no bigger than a grain of rice. ... and life-forms are determined by where in the ocean they liehow close to...
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Garibaldi and golden gorgonian, with a underwater forest of giant ...  Sea Life, Beautiful Painting, Sea Creatures, Jelly Fish Tattoo, Beautiful Jellyfish .... It was later placed in genus Synchiropus The Mandarin fish is generally found .... to take breathtaking photos of Siamese fighting fish, also known as betta fish. ..... the great barracuda, Sphyraena barracuda, is a fast-moving predator with large...
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Great Barrier Reef facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ...  The Great Barrier Reef is over 1,250 mi (2,000 km) long and is 80,000 mi2 ... The reef is so prominent a feature on Earth that it has been photographed from...
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Australia's most venomous snakes - Venomous, Poisonous ...  Australia has over 140 species of land snake - and 32 species of sea snakes have ... human presence on their continent, Australian snakes are generally very shy ... the Taipan, Tiger, Brown, Death Adder, Mulga and a few species of sea snake. ... mice - measures of venom potency are actually always performed on mice,...
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Great Barrier Reef - Wikipedia  The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over 2,300 kilometres (1,400 mi) over an area of approximately 344,400 square kilometres (133,000 sq mi). The reef is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland, Australia. ..... Although the route through the Great Barrier Reef is not easy, reef pilots...
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Biological Diversity 9 - Estrella Mountain Community College  The class Holothuroidea has 1,500 species of sea cucumbers. Sorry, these are NOT ... This image of a pencil sea urchin (left) is from .... The electric ray family can feed on fish that have been stunned with electric shock of over 300 volts. Sawfish .... Limbs with girdles of bone that are adapted for walking on land. A tongue...
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Barrier Reef, Belize  mainland by the lagoon; and three offshore atolls (Lighthouse Reef, Turneffe Atoll ... Caribbean, and they differ in structure, the three in Belize for example lying on ... inhabitants - some use the reef at different times of day (many reef species are ... and crevices and can be equated with the insects of the tropical rain forest.
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Colorful Sea Creature Photos - The Ocean - National Geographic  Here, a white sea anemone keeps company with a sea star in the waters off British Columbia. There are more than a thousand sea anemone species. ... the stinging tentacles of an anemone, which protects the boldly colored reef dweller and its eggs from intruders. Bound ... Photo: A bright yellow and red fish on a coral reef.
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Strange-Looking Sea Creature Photos -- National Geographic  Photo Gallery: Strange-Looking Sea Creatures ... Photo: Fish with red lips and feetlike fins. Photo: A bright yellow and red fish on a coral reef ... An almost surreal seafloor tableau unfolds in the shallow waters of Long Sound, New .... Order ocean books, DVDs, maps, and more from the National Geographic online store.
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Costa Rica, Amphibians and Reptiles - Philip Greenspun  Costa Rica is home to approximately 150 species of amphibians and more than 200 ... Another miniature dinosaur is Basilicus basilicus, or Jesus Christ lizard, a Pacific ... That insectlike buzz is probably two bright-red poison-arrow frogs wrestling .... Many neotropical snake species inhabit a wide range of Costa Rican...
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Darwin, C. R. 1842. The structure and distribution of coral reefs ...  My thanks are likewise especially due to Captain Washington, R.N. for his invariable ... The two succeeding Parts,one on the volcanic islands visited during the ... KEELING, or COCOS ATOLL, (or lagoon-island), in the Indian Ocean; from the .... my own observation and the works of others, the principal kinds of coral reefs,...
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Mollusca - Wikipedia  The molluscs compose the large phylum of invertebrate animals known as the Mollusca. Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. Molluscs are the largest marine phylum, comprising about 23% of all the .... The giant squid, which until recently had not been observed alive in its adult form, is one of the...
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Pulmo Reef - Welcome to Cabo Pulmo National Marine Park...  The Cabo Pulmo Reef has eight fingers of hard coral reef, providing a safe haven for many of the 800 species of marine animals found throughout the Sea of...