Octopus!
Here's a quick guide to telling Gloomy and Maori octopus apart...
Marine Systems
The importance of colour
Decoration and display, warning and deception, or camouflage from predators…. colour is an important feature for fishes!
A fish by any other name
A fish by any other name…would just confuse everyone…but given people refer to a single 'snapper' species as bream, cockney, cockney bream, cockney snapper, golden snapper, old man snapper, pink snapper, porgy, red bream, red pargo, sea bream, squire, or squirefish....we thought we'd visit what goes into naming a species.
Squid mating: Calamari nuptials
Squid display different colours and patterns when they are courting, mating, and laying eggs. This has been coined the squid ‘nuptial dance’...
Dimorphism: differences between males and females
Right across the animal kingdom, males and females may differ in appearance - body size, colour, shape, armaments or ornaments. Here we take a closer look at what this means...
Squid: the biology basics
Squid belong to a group of animals called cephalopods, which includes octopus, cuttlefish, and nautilus. In Australia, we have both the smallest squid in the world, the pygmy squid at 2cm, and the largest squid – the giant squid, with squid rings as big as truck tyres!
Marine biodiversity
Biodiversity is the degree of variation of life, and can refer to genetic, species or ecosystem variation. Here we talk a little about what diversity is, how it can be measured, and include a few interesting stats!
Upwelling and Downwelling in the ocean
What is upwelling and downwelling and what does this mean for the earth's oceans?
Ocean Currents in Australia
Spending a day by the sea you may notice some ocean currents at work, such as localised rips or larger-scale tidal movements. Currents in the ocean can be quite complicated and may be driven by wind, temperature differences, water densities or tides.
