AquaMarine Life

Living organisms make up unique structures in the water that we know as coral reefs. These unusual reefs can be found in shallow and tropical marine water that has almost no nutrients in it. Water that is concentrates with high nutrient levels harm the reef because of the algae that it produces. Reefs extend from 30°N to 30°S of the equator, but they do not grow deeper than 100 ft. or where the temperature of the water falls below 16 °C (72 °F).

Zoologists were amazed when a 200 kilogram giant squid washed up on the shores of west coast Tasmania on a beach near Strahan. At this time they have no idea how it made it on shore.

Zoologists from the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery say the squid’s hood and body is more than three metres long and they estimate its full size with tentacles would have been seven metres, with a weight of around 200kg.