What marauds the seafloor on 15,000 marching tube feet, consuming nearly everything in its path? This month’s creature feature! No, it isn’t eating this Junior SeaDoctor’s hands alive…or is it?
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What dives deep, makes nests with poo, and coughs up fish slurpies for family breakfasts? Find out in this month’s Creature Feature!
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Twinkling lights are appearing all around during the holiday season. Did you know the Salish Sea provides a light show of its own? Meet the mysterious plankton that gets glowing reviews around the globe, Noctiluca scintillans!
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What sea creature is so nice it’s named twice? Well, there is more than one, but only this one is a floating colony of polyps who share food and a wee sail that keeps them safely on seafaring adventures, until…
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What’s long, slimy, green, slithers like an eel in Salish Sea currents, and brings millions of dollars to Salish Sea families? Find out as the first flowering plant makes its debut as a Creature Feature! And yes, we had to include a Pacific spiny lumpsucker. We just can’t help ourselves.
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Tufted puffins are ready for a come-back in the Salish Sea, with a whole lot of support from Salish Sea Heroes. You can be a Salish Sea Hero for puffins, too!
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What flies underwater, makes fishing nets of snot to catch dead stuff and poop, and serves as one of young salmon’s favorite sea snack? Introducing pteropods!
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Surf smelt, Hypomesus pretiosus, are gold-topped, silver fish that swim in schools and live for about five years near shorelines of the Salish Sea. Explore their Creature Feature to find out what’s weird and wonderful about this Snickers bar of the sea and ways you can help them live to feed another fish…or puffin…or porpoise.
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Pinto abalone are so tasty that they were hunted and fished to “functional extinction” by people who didn’t take enough time to truly understand their lifecycle and habitat needs before making, and in some cases breaking (poachers), the collection rules. Some Salish Sea Heroes are working to turn that mistake around. Image by Aaron Baldwin, Rosario Marine Station, Walla Walla University
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Who has impressive size and strength, a clever mind, and stealthy shape- and color-shifting abilities? Sounds like the next Marvel superhero, but it’s actually…
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March is herring spawning time in the Salish Sea and the whole food web is having a herring fest! Herring are not only the special guests, but also the main course…
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