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Pokemon, Donald Duck & David Hasselhoff – as Critters!

Unless you are a scientist, you are probably familiar with common names when describing a type animal, like CLOWNFISH or TIGER. Sometimes, names are more specific, like Tomato Clownfish or Sumatran Tiger, describing only one species. Occasionally these common names overlap and two different species have the same name. How confusing! How can a scientist differentiate between them using only the common name? The answer is that every animal has…
Ulrika Kroon
8th March 2018
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Finding Nemo’s Biggest Lie

Finding Nemo - A Marine Biologist's View As a marine biologist, one of the problems I have while watching movies that involve the ocean is that I see mistakes that many people don't realize are there. Even though they don't really affect the movie, they still bother me. One of my favorite instances of one of these mistakes is in “The Beach.” There is a shark attack in a shallow,…
Daniel Geary
17th May 2017
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Clownfish of Dumaguete – our seven favorites

With the movie "Finding Nemo", the clownfish leaped to instant fame. Cute, colorful and with a distinctive personality, they are hard to miss on the coral reef. Believe it or not, there are actually thirty different species of clownfish including the "false clown anemonefish", the species that our friend Nemo belongs to. Clownfish are a type of damselfish and are also referred to as anemonefish, due to the fact that they…
Daniel Geary
26th March 2017
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Hairy Shrimp – Tiny Treasures in the Seagrass

Hairy Shrimp If you have been diving on the Atmosphere house reef, then you know that we like to spend a lot of time in the seagrass during the safety stop. Sometimes we find frogfish, nudis, pygmy squid, different species of pipefish, and even the occasional octopus. Not many of these, besides baby frogfish, are incredibly tiny, so you might be wondering - why is the dive guide inspecting every blade…
Daniel Geary
20th September 2016