Quotes About Marine life

The lowest and most level land areas show us, especially when we dig there to very great depths, nothing but horizontal layers of material more or less varied, which almost all contain innumerable products of the sea.

horseshoe crabs

most behaviorally sophisticated animals outside the bilaterians are the—terrifying—box jellyfish

A dork is a whale's penis.

that's the nature of marine life and the inland bays I grew up on. You'd have to be a scientist, a poet and a comedian to hope to describe it all accurately, and even then you'd often fall short.

biologists figure is why the crab stocks took such a dive in the mid-eighties." Jack examined his greasy fingers with rapt attention before beginning

If I go out in the open ocean environment, virtually anywhere in the world, and I drag a net from 3,000 feet to the surface, most of the animals - in fact, in many places, 80 to 90 percent of the animals that I bring up in that net - make light. This makes for some pretty spectacular light shows.

Another marine example is the Portuguese man-of-war, which can measure more than 150 feet from its air bladder to the tips of its tentacles. Many think of it as a jellyfish, but in fact it is a siphonophore—a colony of minute individuals.

Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant? I'm halfway through my fish burger and I realize, Oh my God....I could be eating a slow learner.

The birds that struggled to successfully locate crustaceans searched for snails and clams, with varying luck. However, a new option presented itself. An aroma pierced their nostrils, drawing their attention to a speck of light circling the island. The object was a quarter mile off, but judging by the motoring sounds, it was one of those large objects that carried clothed biped creatures across the water.

The book references whales attacking humans, which has never happened... until July 2020 when orcas started ramming boats off Portugal and Spain. Perhaps some of the book's other predictions will come true.

The mind evolved in the sea.