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Marine Arthropods
Marine Arthropod Videos
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Lesson Plan
Marine Arthropod Adaptations + Engineering DesignStudents explore the diversity and adaptations of marine arthropods.Full Lesson Plan
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Factsheet
Marine Arthropods: An Adaptive Body PlanMarine arthropods are the most abundant group of animals in the ocean.Download Factsheet
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Reading
Marine Arthropods: A Successful Design, The Limbed Creature AdvantageWhether one rates success in terms of numbers, number of species, range of habitats exploited or simply as a total mass of animal tissue, the limbed creatures clearly have the advantage.Download Reading
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Creature
Copepods
One of the most abundant creatures in the aquatic world is the tiny crustacean called a copepod. Most live as plankton in the open ocean. But they also live in the deepest ocean trenches, freshwater streams and lakes, in caves, and really anywhere there’s water — from frigid to very hot.
Copepods
One of the most abundant creatures in the aquatic world is the tiny crustacean called a copepod. Most live as plankton in the open ocean. But they also live in the deepest ocean trenches, freshwater streams and lakes, in caves, and really anywhere there’s water — from frigid to very hot.
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Shape of Life Blog
Our Oceans: The Frontier for Curious Minds
By Nancy Burnett, Founder, Shape of Life
I just went to a wonderful workshop about plankton. We may as well fess up to the fact that there’s a whole world out there in the ocean that we haven't told you about, yet. Most marine animals that we know and love started out in life looking very different from what they look like as adults.At the beginning of life, they hatch out of eggs that float in the water or are attached to the bottom of the ocean. The tiny larvae feed, grow and change form in…
Our Oceans: The Frontier for Curious Minds
By Nancy Burnett, Founder, Shape of Life I just went to a wonderful workshop about plankton. We may as well fess up to the fact that there’s a whole world out there in the ocean that we haven't told you about, yet. Most marine animals that we know and love started out in life looking very different from what they look like as adults.At the beginning of life, they hatch out of eggs that float in the water or are attached to the bottom of the ocean. The tiny larvae feed, grow and change form in…
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