The current also plays a key role in global heat distribution and marine ecosystems.
Comprising over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands, it supports unparalleled marine biodiversity, including 1,500 fish species, 400 coral species, and endangered species like the green sea turtle and dugong.
The channel is known for its biodiversity, including coral reefs and marine mammals, and is strategically significant for international shipping.
Coral reefs are known as the rainforests of the sea because of their high concentration of biodiversity that supports about a third of all marine species and a billion people.
Lobster refers to large marine crustaceans of the Decapoda order (e.
English Version Mantis shrimp, scientifically known as Stomatopoda, are marine crustaceans found in tropical and subtropical oceans.
The region is known for extreme weather, seasonal ice cover, and unique marine wildlife (e.
"It is evident," said Gideon Spilett, "that this well is in direct communication with the sea, and that some marine animal comes from time to time to breathe at the bottom.
Did some marine monster come from time to time, to breathe at the bottom of this well?
If some marine monster had been surprised unawares by the retreat of the water, he would by this time have regained the sea by the subterranean passage, before the new opening had been offered to him.
No; for marine plants abounded on the shore, glass-wort, ficoides, and all those fucaceae which form wrack.
" Arrived at the summit of the mound, Pencroft and his two companions set to work, with no other tools than their hands, to despoil of its principal branches a rather sickly tree, a sort of marine fir; with these branches they made a litter, on which, covered with grass and leaves, they could carry the engineer.
The boys kept all their marine curiosities for her, and were always ready to take her a row or a sail, as the bay was safe and that sort of travelling suited her better than driving.
" The next was a marine piece, for a boat was seen, surrounded by tumultuous waves of blue cambric, and rowed by a party of stalwart men in regimentals, who with difficulty kept their seats, for the boat was only a painted board, and they sat on boxes or stools behind it.
" I had a lively picture of Captain Nichols flying headlong down a narrow gangway before the uplifted foot of an angry mate, and, like a true Englishman, rejoicing in the spirit of the Mercantile Marine.
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.
Marine ecologist Andrey Zotov from the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, captured these images while conducting research at the Antarctic station.
Shrinking habitat, exploitation of natural resources, climate change and pollution are the main drivers of species loss and are threatening more than 40% of amphibians, 33% of coral reefs and over a third of all marine mammals with extinction, the IPBES report said.
" Asked one Marine, who still was tormented by the image of a platoon member being killed in a battle.
There was no one else on the beach, and the nearest phone to call the Marine Patrol was miles away.
