Since then it has become the subject of a detailed study by the Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology and the Institute of Cetacean Research who recently published a paper on the fascinating creature.
It belongs to an extinct family of marine animals called anomalocaridids, which first appeared during the Cambrian Period 520 million years ago.
Plastic in the oceans is becoming a serious ecological problem for marine life, as well as an ugly pollutant washed up on beaches and floating on the open seas.
Within about 50 million years -- no time at all, geologically speaking -- one of the four kinds of mammals that has returned to a marine environment has developed into the largest of all animal forms, the whale.
Glass is the oldest material known to man and one of the least understood, says Tony Lawson, Earle's engineering director at Deep Ocean and Exploration Research Marine.
Chow said, "knowing how much you can earn as, say, a marine engineer really makes a difference.
The feed, called fishmeal, is a brown powder made from dried fish bones and the trimmings of small marine species such as anchovies.
The problem facing the oceans are legion: the marine conservation community is fragmented, bans on destructive activities are routinely ignored, too many regulatory organizations have a development-first mindset and enforcement and oversight are ineffective, if not altogether lacking.
Small males would sneak in to mate by swimming low to the ground in feminine fashion and not displaying their "male" brown stripes, the researchers reported in the journal Marine Biology.
The lowering of the waters'pH value is not great at the moment but could pose a serious threat to current marine life if it continues, they warn.
SYDNEY, July 4 (Xinhua) -- Hundreds of the world's top marine scientists and researchers are calling on a provincial Australian government to stop its shark catch and kill policy, local media reported Friday.
Merchant Marine Academy in 1969, my educated dad was happy.
" Ahead of him the brunette disappears around a corner and in the same moment a young man in a marine uniform puts out a foot to trip him up.
There was no one else on the beach, and the nearest phone to call the Marine Patrol was miles away.
