Marine Biologist Visit
We thoroughly enjoyed a visit from Marine Biologist Conor Ryan last week. Conor spent some time in the classroom explaining various aspects of Marine Life and the Ocean. We then proceeded to our local seashore where we explored our shoreline. Below are some snippets of information we remember from the visit.
Starfish eat their food by literally wrapping their stomach around it and then pulling it into their mouth.
We found a rag worm!
Barnacles come out of the rocks when the water comes on them.
Baby barnacles don’t start to swim until they are 6 months.
Years ago animones used to get eaten alive right off the rock.
Conor told us that rag worms were predators.
He told us that animones sting fish.
We learned that whales back bones are 10 times the size of humans.
We went to the shore and saw an anemone.
When a dog fish lays her eggs, as she’s laying them she goes round and round seaweed and her egg wraps around it. The egg is also very tough.
