The deep sea is the single biggest living space on the planet. It could well be where life first began and it makes life possible everywhere else. -Helen Scales, marine biologist, writer and broadcaster Cover image credits to respective owners By Mohd Amirul Faisal I traveled to South Africa before the pandemic struck the worldContinue reading “Here are the 7 weirdest deep-sea creatures with quirky abilities”
Category Archives: Marine Biology
Sharks with remarkable superpowers
By Mohd Amirul Faisal In most cases, sharks are always portrayed as the main villain in monster B-movies. I have yet to see studios utilizing the opportunity to make sharks as misunderstood living entities that play a significant role towards the ecosystem of our planet. Regardless, hilariously terrible movies like Sharknado frequently feature mutant sharksContinue reading “Sharks with remarkable superpowers”
Colossal squid – The giant squid’s cousin that is still shrouded in mystery.
By Mohd Amirul Faisal Cover image represents the giant squid Outer space is a frontier that is not foreign anymore to humans on Earth. That is because there are already numerous space programs that have been conducted over the past few decades. To the point that some of us might overlook another indispensable biome onContinue reading “Colossal squid – The giant squid’s cousin that is still shrouded in mystery.”
The secret life of a hermit crab
“The one thing that hermit crabs never do is kill the occupant of the shell before moving in.” – Helen Scales, Spirals in Time – The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells By Mohd Amirul Faisal Cover image credit: COURTESY OF © BBC Imagine that you are taking a stroll alongside the shorelines ofContinue reading “The secret life of a hermit crab”
Scaly foot snail – siput yang disaluti dengan besi. (dan juga spesies lain yang seumpamanya).
Oleh Mohd Amirul Faisal Cuba bayangkan anda sedang melawati kawasan gunung berapi di Hawaii dimana anda dapat menyaksikan letusan magma yang mengalir beberapa ribu meter dari dasar Bumi. Pemandangan yang cukup mengagumkan. Selepas sahaja anda berhasrat untuk pulang, ada suatu bunyi yang muncul secara tiba-tiba dari kawah gunung berapi yang berdekatan. Bunyi tersebut macam pernahContinue reading “Scaly foot snail – siput yang disaluti dengan besi. (dan juga spesies lain yang seumpamanya).”
Giant tube worms of the deep – How they can survive without a mouth nor guts?
Photo courtesy of Dr. Monika Bright, Department of Marine Biology, University of Vienna, Austria By Mohd Amirul Faisal The Earth’s ocean is already proven as one of the most uncharted areas on the planet. This is given by the fact that we humans only explored less than 10% of these entire bodies of water thatContinue reading “Giant tube worms of the deep – How they can survive without a mouth nor guts?”
Adakah obor-obor akan menakluki lautan disebabkan oleh pemanasan global?
Oleh Mohd Amirul Faisal Sejak kebelakangan ini, terdapat banyak kes sengatan yang telah dilaporkan oleh rakyat di negara kita. Dengan musim kemarau sementara yang kita sedang mengalami buat masa sekarang, ia hanya akan menyebabkan populasi suatu organisma ini yang tidak mempunyai jantung dan otak untuk terus memberi pelbagai jenis masalah terhadap komuniti di persisiran pantai.Continue reading “Adakah obor-obor akan menakluki lautan disebabkan oleh pemanasan global?”
The Remarkable Intelligence of an Octopus
Cephalopods are evolution’s only experiment in big brains outside of the vertebrates. ― Peter Godfrey-Smith, Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness By Mohd Amirul Faisal Fahrurazi Humans had been consuming numerous marine life for the past thousand years ranging from the largest whales that are still hunted by certainContinue reading “The Remarkable Intelligence of an Octopus”
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