What exactly is krill?
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Krill Animal Printouts\nLabel Me! Printouts  \n\n Krill (euphausiids) are small, shrimp-like crustaceans that swim in the seas. These pink, translucent animals congregate in large, dense masses called "swarms" or "clouds," that turn areas of the ocean's surface pink. Krill are very important in the food web since many animals eat them. \nThere are about 85 species of krill, ranging in size from under 0.5 inch (1 cm) up to 5.5 inches (14 cm) long. The dominant krill in the southern polar oceans is the Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba), which is up to 2.3 inches (6 cm) long and weighs about 0.035 ounces (1 g). Antarctic krill have a life span of about 5 to 10 years. Antarctic Krill is considered to be a keystone species, an organism upon which very many Antarctic predators depend. \n\nDiet: Krill eat phytoplankton, single-celled plants that float in the seas near the surface. Some tropical krill also eat zooplankton. Krill spend their days in the dark depths of the ocean (about 320 feet = 100 m deep), safe from their major predators (like baleen whales and sea birds). They swim to the surface each night to eat phytoplankton. They can fast (go without eating) for up to 200 days, shrinking during this time. \n\nAnatomy: Krill have a hard exoskeleton, many legs (used for swimming and gathering food), and a segmented body. Females produce almost 1,000 eggs each summer; the eggs are laid at the surface, but fall to great depths. The hatchlings swim back to the surface to feed. Like all crustaceans, krill molt their exoskeleton as they grow. \n\nFood Web: Phytoplankton is eaten by krill (and many other organisms). Krill are eaten by many organisms, including fish, squid, sea birds, and mammals (like baleen whales and some seals). \n\nClassification: Kingdom Animalia (animals), Phylum Arthropoda, Subphylum Crustacea, Class Malacostraca, Order Euphausiacea.
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Giant red mysid (Gnathophausia ingens) is a deep sea crustacean, think shrimp, which grows from 10-50 cm from some reports and lives in the darkness of the deep ocean.  This is contrast to other mysids which are transparant typically, live in the open ocean and are about ten times smaller than their giant cousin, some people regard them as zooplankton and have been given the collective name “krill”.  Because the red mysid lives in the deep ocean the red colour of its shell most likely enables it to appear invisble to other sea creatures.  The red mysid is also armed with a defence mechanism similar to squid, in that when attacked or disturbed the animal ejects a cloud of fluid then runs away.  Unlike with a squid this cloud is bioluminescent (flashes light) and in the total darkness of the deep ocean has the effect of startling its attacker.  I have occasionally seen these animals for sale in fish markets but have never tried them.  There might be pictures of the animal on yahoo, I would recommend an image search.
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Is a northern section of the Black Sea, linked to the larger body through the Kerch Strait. It is bounded on the north by Ukraine, on the east by Russia and on the west by the Crimean peninsula. To the west also lie the 110 km Arabat Spit and the highly saline marshy inlets of the Syvash. In antiquity, it was known as the Maeotian Lake or Maeotian Sea.\nThe Sea is 340 km long and 135 km wide and has an area of 37,555 km² (14,500 mi²). The main rivers flowing into the Sea are the Don and Kuban; they ensure that the waters of the Sea are comparatively low in salinity and almost fresh in places, and also bring huge volumes of silt into the sea. The Sea of Azov is the shallowest Sea in the world with an average depth of only 13 metres; in fact, where the silt has built up, such as the Gulf of Taganrog, the average depth is less than 1 metre. The prevailing current in the Sea is a counter-clockwise swirl; the tides are variable but can peak at over 5 metres. In the winter large portions of the Sea can be ice-bound.
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Go here and read all about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmy_Killer_Whale
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That sounds like pure krap. Why do you to waste your time with that? \nWorse, why do you waste MY time with it?
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Berlin, February 24th, 2004. An entire "island" composed of trash has been discovered in the Pacific Ocean. It is as large as the Central Europe.\n\nAccording to the German magazine "Geo", plastic objects prevail among the trash. The "island" weights approximately three million tons in its entirety. This is six times greater than a number of natural plankton.\n\nScientists claim that the "island", situated between California and Hawaiian islands, forms circular ocean currents which now accumulate wastes by the shores of Japan and the US and bring it to the center of the Ocean.
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You ever watch these sci fi shows where someone from outter space escapes from their ship on a POD?\n\nIts just a storage device. iPOD was created by apple and because of their "i" trademark for iMacs, they call it iPOD.\n\nPOD is just a storage device, but the reference to it in multimedia means its a storage device for a data of music collection. If you want to carry it with you and make it mobile and if you want storage for just music instead of using your hard drive, then you use a pod. When you hear the term "pod", you should automatically assume they are referring to the iPOD. When it comes to the recent multimedia bonanza, pods are referred to as the iPODS. There are no pods that are independent from Apple's iPod because they have that term "iPod" patented. There cant be another POD reference to a different device because the pod reference in multimedia is patented by apple.\n\nWhen it comes to multimedia software being distributed over the internet and cell phones, pods are not in that category. We use software that enables us to listen to certain music extensions like .mp3 and .mp4 and .wav. In order to listen to these extensions, we need a sound player....for example, realplayer, winamp, even itunes.\n\n.mp3 is to multimedia software as .doc is to Word processing softwares.
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Penguins, bears and seals. Whales. That is a consensus. As for the flaura, lichen ... try looking the remainder up.
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Sea· slat·er\n\n(Zoöl.) Any isopod crustacean of the genus Ligia\n\n\nNO...
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It exists, but there's no real mystery about it anymore. The main theory is that it's just pockets of methane gas under the ocean floor. When the gas escapes, it lowers he density of the water big time and any ship caught in it's path will sink almost instantaneously, it also messes with plane engines if enough of it enters the air in dense enough pockets.
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count em up :)\n\nhttp://www.buschgardens.org/infobooks/Penguins/appendix.html
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here, use something from this....\n\n\nAnimal life. Only a few insects and other tiny animals spend their entire lives on the Antarctic mainland. The continent's largest land animal is a wingless midge, a type of fly no more than 12 millimetres long. Most land animals live at the edges of the continent. To avoid freezing to death, some lice, mites, and ticks cling to mosses, the fur of seals, or the feathers of birds.\n\nUnlike the continent, the Southern Ocean has abundant wildlife. The most common animal of the ocean is krill, a small, shrimplike creature that feeds on tiny floating organisms. Many other Antarctic animals depend on krill for food, and several countries catch and sell krill as a protein-rich food for people. The squid—a soft, boneless sea animal—also is eaten by many Antarctic animals. In addition, about 100 kinds of fish live in the ocean, including Antarctic cod, icefish, and plunderfish.\n\nSeveral kinds of whales migrate to Antarctica for the summer. Those that feed on krill are blue whales, fin whales, humpback whales, minke whales, right whales, and sei whales. The blue whale is the largest animal that has ever lived. This rare giant grows up to 30 metres long. Antarctic whales that eat fish and squid include killer whales, also called orcas; southern bottlenose whales; southern fourtooth whales; and sperm whales. Killer whales also hunt seals, penguins, and smaller whales.\n\nVarious kinds of seals live in Antarctica. They spend most of their lives in the water, where they swim, dive, and catch food. Most of them nest on the coasts. The Antarctic fur seal nests on nearby islands. The largest seal in the world is the southern elephant seal, which feeds on squid. The males may reach a length of 5 metres. Weddell seals and Ross seals eat fish and squid. Crabeater seals and Antarctic fur seals eat krill. Leopard seals hunt other seals as well as penguins.\n\nDuring the 1800's and early 1900's, hunters greatly reduced the number of whales and Antarctic fur seals. Today, international wildlife laws prohibit or restrict the killing of these animals.\n\nPenguins are the animals most often associated with Antarctica. These birds cannot fly, and they waddle awkwardly on land. But they are skilful swimmers. They streak through the ocean, diving for fish and other food. Six kinds of penguins breed on the continent. Playful Adelie penguins, the most common kind, build nests of pebbles on the coasts. The tall, quieter emperor penguin grows to about 1.2 metres. After the female emperor penguin lays an egg on ice, the male rests the egg on his feet and warms it with the lower part of his belly. Chinstrap penguins, gentoo penguins, king penguins, and macaroni penguins nest on the Antarctic Peninsula and on islands. Rockhopper penguins nest only on islands north of Antarctica.\n\nMore than 40 kinds of flying birds spend the summer in Antarctica. Many types nest on land but spend most of their time diving for food. These birds include albatrosses, prions, and a large group of sea birds known as petrels. Other birds, such as cormorants, gulls, skuas, and terns, return to land more frequently. Some of them steal food from the nests of other birds. Some land birds, such as sheathbills, nest on the peninsula. Others, including pintails and pipits, nest on islands.
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do you like penguins? do you wanna practice making-out on each other? do i look fat in this? are you my friend? is my brother annoying? do you believe in god? aliens? ghosts? do you like rats? do you eat meat? do you worship penguins? do you think worms will one day rule the world? did you steal that rat from the pet store?\n\nduh. hell no. hell yeah. umm...dadada. fuck yes! no. yes. yep. what do you think? i have 6. meat is murder! doesn't everyone? no penguins will. no, i rescued her in my pocket without paying for her.
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The Loch Ness Monster, sometimes called "Nessie" or "Ness" is a mysterious and unidentified animal or group of creatures said to inhabit Loch Ness, a large deep freshwater loch near the city of Inverness in northern Scotland. Nessie is usually categorized as a type of lake monster.
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it is lochness....here you go\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loch_Ness_Monster
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It's a type of penguin.\n\nAdelies are the archetypal penguins that are supposed to look like men in their dinner suits. They have a white front and a black back. They also have a white ring around the eye that is most pronounced in the breeding season. Juveniles can be recognised by their white chins.  \nChicks have uniform grey black plumage\n\n\ns
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Sealand is a small, self-declared country off the coast of england where a family took over a WW2 gun platform in international waters and claimed it as a sovereign country.\n\nContrary to what the previous poster said, they are still there several decades later, and have a thriving economy as the base for Europes most secure data storage facility.