Ocean Animals Wallpaper
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Marine biology is the scientific study of living organisms in the ocean or other marine or brackish bodies of water. Given that in biology many phyla, families and genera have some species that live in the sea and others that live on land, marine biology classifies species based on the environment rather than on taxonomy. Marine biology differs from marine ecology as marine ecology is focused on how organisms interact with each other and environment and biology is the study of the animal itself.
Marine life is a vast resource, providing food, medicine, and raw materials, in addition to helping to support recreation and tourism all over the world. At a fundamental level, marine life helps determine the very nature of our planet. Marine organisms contribute significantly to the oxygen cycle, and are involved in the regulation of the earth's climate. Shorelines are in part shaped and protected by marine life, and some marine organisms even help create new land.
Marine biology covers a great deal, from the microscopic, including most zooplankton and phytoplankton, where zooplankton can be as small as 0.02 micrometers or as big as 2 meters in the case of the sunfish to the huge cetaceans (whales) which reach up to a reported 48 meters (125 feet) in length.
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Date: 1/15/2009
Owner: Gallery Administrator
Size: 850 items
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Galapagos_Sea_Lions
Galapagos Sea Lions Ecuador
Date: 12/16/2011
Views: 1114
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King_Penguin_Colony
King Penguin Colony South Georgia Island
Date: 12/9/2011
Views: 1887
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Saltwater_Crocodile
Saltwater Crocodile Queensland Australia
Date: 12/13/2011
Views: 4797
Keywords: colored background, nobody, aggression, animals, Australasia, Australia, blue background, bubble, ocean life, continent, Coral Sea, Crocodile, danger, daytime, Estuarine crocodile, facial expression, full-length, landscape, marine life, marine scene, mout
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Cownose_Rays
School of Golden Cownose Rays
Date: 12/16/2011
Views: 1273
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Sea_Anemones
Sea Anemones
Date: 12/14/2011
Views: 4118
Keywords: adult animal, animals, Anthozoan, close-up view, Cnidarians, Coral, delicate, full-frame, Goniopora coral, group, group of, group of animals, Invertebrate, Lotus, nobody, outdoors, Poritidae, red, Sea anemone, underwater, vulnerability, Water lily
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Sea_Otter
Sea Otter and Newborn Pup Prince William Sound Gulf of Alaska
Date: 12/13/2011
Views: 4459
Keywords: North Pacific Ocean, affection, Alaska, animals, anxiety, baby animal, biology, endangered, female animal, floating, Gulf of Alaska, keystone species, life science, love, Mammal, mother, Mustelidae, natural sciences, natural world, nobody, North America,
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Sleeping_Walruses
Sleeping Walruses Svalbard Norway
Date: 12/13/2011
Views: 4076
Keywords: animals, Norway, adult animal, affection, Arctic, couples, cute, Europe, island, Lapland, love, Mammal, natural world, nobody, Nordaustlandet, two animals, outdoors, pack ice, polar regions, resting, Scandinavia, Sea mammal, sleeping, Svalbard, togetherne
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Underwater_Sea_Lion
Underwater View of a Steller Sea Lion British Columbia
Date: 1/13/2009
Views: 4850
Keywords: Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus), Canada, British Columbia, North America, Hornby Island, adventure, horizontal, Jon Cornforth Images, travel destination, animal, dark, deep, endangered, environment, island, marine mammal, native, nature, ocean, out
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Walrus_Herd
Walrus Herd Chuckchi Sea Off the National Petroleum Reserve
Date: 7/25/2006
Views: 1188
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Whale_Shark_Okinawa
Whale Shark Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium Japan
Date: 12/16/2011
Views: 1124
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Adelie_Penguins_01
Adelie Penguins Antarctica
Date: 12/12/2011
Views: 3813
Keywords: animals, action, Adelie penguin, animal behavior, Animal colony, Antarctica, aquatic life, Bird, cold, composite photography, conformity, diving, eagerness, Flightless bird, formations, glacier, group, group of animals, large group of animals, leader, man
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Humpback_Whales
Humpback Whales Breaching Alaska
Date: 7/25/2011
Views: 4387
Keywords: Natural world, 1, Animal, Animals, Baleen whale, Breaching, Clear sky, Coast, Coastline, Daytime, Dripping, Fin, Forest, Glacier, Humpback whale, Jumping, Landscape, Mammal, Mendenhall Glacier, Motion, Mountain, Summer, North America, Ocean, Outdoors, Peo
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Pair of Clown fish, Solomon Islands
Date: 4/25/2011
Views: 944
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School of Yellow-Tailed Surgeon fish, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
Date: 4/25/2011
Views: 874
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Lemon Shark
Date: 4/25/2011
Views: 725
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Jellyfish, Great Barrier Reef, Australia
Date: 10/6/2010
Views: 855
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Ocean Animal Wallpaper
Date: 4/11/2010
Views: 1062
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Ocean Animal Wallpaper
Date: 4/11/2010
Views: 824
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ocean-life-449
Ocean Animal Wallpaper
Date: 4/11/2010
Views: 926
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Ocean Animal Wallpaper
Date: 4/11/2010
Views: 891
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Ocean Animal Wallpaper
Date: 4/11/2010
Views: 943
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ocean-life-452
Ocean Animal Wallpaper
Date: 4/11/2010
Views: 802
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ocean-life-446
Bottlenose Dolphins
Date: 10/11/2009
Views: 942
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ocean-life-445
Ocean Animal Wallpaper
Date: 10/11/2009
Views: 870
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ocean-life-432
Ocean Animal Wallpaper
Date: 9/18/2009
Views: 904
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Ocean Animal Wallpaper
Date: 9/18/2009
Views: 941
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Ocean Animal Wallpaper
Date: 9/18/2009
Views: 935
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