Both apex oceanic predators and coveted prizes to anglers; swordfish, sailfish, and marlin have long dominated their environment as well as the human imagination.
Both apex oceanic predators and coveted prizes to anglers; swordfish, sailfish, and marlin have long dominated their environment as well as the human imagination.
If it seems as though you’ve been hearing more about the increasing number of jellyfish in the world’s oceans recently, you have because their numbers are increasing – dramatically.
So saith the Preacher: All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again. (Ecclesiastes, chapter 1, verse 7) Ten miles from where I was born and raised, and seventy-five miles from where my family and I now live, one […]
Despite their seemingly benign appearance, when it comes to predators in the tidal zone of the Pacific Northwest, the Ochre Sea Star, Pisaster ochraceus, is among the most ferocious. There are few other creatures that inhabit this zone that this sea star cannot successfully kill and eat. The ones I found in the early morning […]