The Great Barrier Reef is an underwater world that astronauts can see. It is the only living thing on earth that can be seen from space!
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070515074933.htm
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These Gorillas are big! In fact, they are the largest living apes! Males can measure up to 1.7m in height and way 160kg – that’s over 350 pounds! Just because these primates are big, doesn’t mean they don’t need your help. Within the Congo, the number of Eastern Lowland Gorillas has declined by 90% over the past 5 years, and only 3,000 now remain.
http://www.arkive.org/eastern-gorilla/gorilla-beringei/
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Home, Sweet Home. The giant clam only gets one chance to find a nice home. Once it fastens itself to a spot on a reef, it sits there for the rest of its life!
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If I only had a brain! Did you know sea stars have no brains and no blood? Their nervous system is spread through their arms and their “blood” is actually filtered sea water.
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There are at least 400 species of sharks, and even though they’ve been around for 400 to 450 million years, many are now threatened with extinction.
http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=531&ArticleID=5775&l=en
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To attract a mate, bowhead whales have developed very sophisticated songs. They produce two different sounds that then get mixed together. They also change their songs from year to year, never repeating songs from past years. Talk about a whale of a love song!
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090729074523.htm
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Did you know…Canadian Geese can travel 1000 km in less than a week? In fact, some geese travelling from their breeding to their winter grounds are able to make the trip in just one day!
http://www.hww.ca/en/species/birds/canada-goose.html
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Today’s rate of extinction of species is 1,000 to 10,000 times the natural rate suggested by the fossil record, which was about one species per million species a year.
http://www.hww.ca/hww2.asp?id=222
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Close to 1,000 species of gymnosperms (trees such as pine and spruce) have been identified by scientists. These plants go way back on the evolutionary scale, making them one of the oldest of any plants alive, but many groups are now considered endangered.
http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?documentid=531&articleid=5775
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Of the 634 species and subspecies of primates, a whopping 303 are considered Vulnerable or worse, with 22% considered Endangered and 11% considered Critically Endangered.
http://www.conservation.org/Documents/Primate_Factsheet_2008.pdf
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