Joined: 30 Aug 2023 Age: 39 Gender: Female Posts: 3
02 Jul 2024, 5:23 pm
Anyone on here interested in marine biology specially geared to ocean shorelines. Looking for ND friends who would love to talk about what they know about marine biology. I collect seashells and love the the natural history involved in oceanology. I am near the Myrtle Beach South Carolina area.
Maybe let's play a game.
What is you're favorite marine sea creation, what is it's species name, and what do you like most about it? I'll go first....
My favorite is the Orca, Orcinus orca and I love that they are the apex predators and are fearless toward the Great White Sharks. I saw one in the wild off the cost of the Outer Banks; a lone juvenile male hunting who was later found in the Chesapeake bay. They are magnificent .
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13 Jul 2024, 12:46 pm
sea_goat_802 wrote:
Anyone on here interested in marine biology specially geared to ocean shorelines. Looking for ND friends who would love to talk about what they know about marine biology. I collect seashells and love the the natural history involved in oceanology. I am near the Myrtle Beach South Carolina area.
Maybe let's play a game.
What is you're favorite marine sea creation, what is it's species name, and what do you like most about it? I'll go first....
My favorite is the Orca, Orcinus orca and I love that they are the apex predators and are fearless toward the Great White Sharks. I saw one in the wild off the cost of the Outer Banks; a lone juvenile male hunting who was later found in the Chesapeake bay. They are magnificent .
Am a resident of the Washington DC area. Didnt know that orcas ever visited our local Chesapeake Bay.
Am partial to the sperm whale (Moby Dick was of the Sperm Whale persuasion) myself. Never seen one in person though.
Anyone on here interested in marine biology specially geared to ocean shorelines. Looking for ND friends who would love to talk about what they know about marine biology. I collect seashells and love the the natural history involved in oceanology. I am near the Myrtle Beach South Carolina area.
Maybe let's play a game.
What is you're favorite marine sea creation, what is it's species name, and what do you like most about it? I'll go first....
My favorite is the Orca, Orcinus orca and I love that they are the apex predators and are fearless toward the Great White Sharks. I saw one in the wild off the cost of the Outer Banks; a lone juvenile male hunting who was later found in the Chesapeake bay. They are magnificent .
Am a resident of the Washington DC area. Didnt know that orcas ever visited our local Chesapeake Bay.
Am partial to the sperm whale (Moby Dick was of the Sperm Whale persuasion) myself. Never seen one in person though.
Reportedly with the help of AI researchers have recently been able to decipher the sperm whale phonetic alphabet:
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Sperm whales communicate with each other using rhythmic sequences of clicks, called codas. It was previously thought that sperm whales had just 21 coda types. However, after studying almost 9,000 recordings, the Ceti researchers identified 156 distinct codas. They also noticed the basic building blocks of these codas which they describe as a "sperm whale phonetic alphabet" – much like phonemes, the units of sound in human language which combine to form words
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16 Jul 2024, 5:18 pm
Bestiola wrote:
cyberdad wrote:
Anyone a fan of Plesiosaurs? I often wonder late at night if they still lurk our rivers, lakes and oceans
Yes, pliosaurs too!! The Scots believe they have some left, even if plesiosaurs couldn't lift their necks so high as Nessie reportedly could.
Cool! Yes judging by so many claims of sightings it seems like an exciting prospect. Interestingly almost all the sightings seem to be approx same latitude Scotland, Western Europe, Russia and Canada. Might be a deep cold-water species that survived the comet 65 million years ago.
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19 Jul 2024, 1:39 am
Sorry I missed this thread OP. I'm all about Shark Week and oceanography but I can never remember all the names. I have a thing for octopi and jellyfish but of course they aren't at the shore. Maybe stingrays?
They all seem like Pokemon to me.
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Joined: 21 Feb 2011 Age: 56 Gender: Male Posts: 36,036
19 Jul 2024, 1:44 am
IsabellaLinton wrote:
^^
They now say Nessie is a ghost. I like that theory the best.
Not far from my theory, I think its plausible Nessie and bigfoot are interdimensional and enter/exit via portals from our realm after having a nice meal.
Anyone a fan of Plesiosaurs? I often wonder late at night if they still lurk our rivers, lakes and oceans
Yes, pliosaurs too!! The Scots believe they have some left, even if plesiosaurs couldn't lift their necks so high as Nessie reportedly could.
Cool! Yes judging by so many claims of sightings it seems like an exciting prospect. Interestingly almost all the sightings seem to be approx same latitude Scotland, Western Europe, Russia and Canada. Might be a deep cold-water species that survived the comet 65 million years ago.
What Aboriginal Australians actually saw and preserved in their dreamtime stories were remnants of ancient megafauna, that lived until very recently. Unfortunately, only four megafauna species left, mostly due to human endeavours. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Plei ... xtinctions