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This category has the following 32 subcategories, out of 32 total. Fauna by biogeographic realm (14 C) Fauna by continent (15 C) Fauna by country (217 C, 1 P) Fauna by ecoregion (25 C) Animals by region (14 C) Fauna by sea or ocean (10 C)
Added to NRHP. October 23, 1991. Rock Creek Park is a large urban park that bisects the Northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C. Created by Act of Congress in 1890, the park comprises 1,754 acres (2.74 mi 2, 7.10 km 2 ), generally along Rock Creek, a tributary of the Potomac River . More than two million people visit the park each year, many to ...
Marine life, sea life, or ocean life is the plants, animals, and other organisms that live in the salt water of seas or oceans, or the brackish water of coastal estuaries. At a fundamental level, marine life affects the nature of the planet. Marine organisms, mostly microorganisms, produce oxygen and sequester carbon.
1) Male and female sea turtles age in the ocean and migrate to shallow coastal water. 2) Sea turtles mate in the water near offshore nesting sites. 3) The adult male sea turtles return to the feeding sites in the water. 4) Female sea turtles cycle between mating and nesting. 5) Female sea turtles lay their eggs.
Kyrikon) is a Croatian island in the northern Adriatic Sea, located near Rijeka in the Bay of Kvarner and part of Primorje-Gorski Kotar county. Krk is tied with Cres as the largest Adriatic island, depending on the methodology used to measure the coastline. [2] Krk is the most populous island in the Adriatic, with multiple towns and villages ...
450,000 (2012) Website. www .aquarium .org. The Oregon Coast Aquarium is an aquarium in Newport in the U.S. state of Oregon. Opened in 1992, the facility sits on 23 acres (9.3 ha) along Yaquina Bay near the Pacific Ocean. The aquarium was home to Keiko, the orca who starred in the movie Free Willy, from January 7, 1996, until September 9, 1998 ...
Phyllopteryx Swainson 1839. A seahorse (also written sea-horse and sea horse) is any of 46 species of small marine bony fish in the genus Hippocampus. "Hippocampus" comes from the Ancient Greek hippókampos ( ἱππόκαμπος ), itself from híppos ( ἵππος) meaning "horse" and kámpos ( κάμπος) meaning "sea monster" [4] [5] or ...
Alaska SeaLife Center. / 60.10000°N 149.44083°W / 60.10000; -149.44083. The Alaska SeaLife Center is a public aquarium and Alaska 's only permanent marine mammal rehabilitation facility. It is located on the shores of Resurrection Bay in Seward. It opened in May of 1998, and is dedicated to understanding and maintaining the integrity ...