As you walk past the stalls and stands, you'll come across rarities like the giant abalone loco, prickly sea urchins and fleshy tunicates like piure, among other unconventional offerings.
In time—maybe months, maybe years, maybe a decade, depending on the ocean's moods—an alien expanse of raw steel will be encrusted with algae, tunicates, hard and soft corals, and sponges ...
Tunicates are the most commonly observed invasive species in Casco Bay, he said, pointing to another variety on top of the sea squirt called colonial tunicates – “an invasive covered with an ...
If you have extra time, San Cristóbal Hill (Cerro San Cristóbal) is worthwhile. San Cristóbal Hill (Cerro San Cristóbal) stands nearly 3,000 feet above the rest of Metropolitan Park, a large ...
Many are naturally short-lived, some living less than a year in the wild. Most have specialised diets that include sessile invertebrates, like sponges, hydroids, bryozoans and tunicates. Unless able ...
Oct. 20—A Maine scientist is raising the alarm that Casco Bay could become a "bioinvasion hotspot" after finding three new invasive species in three years. Thomas Trott, a marine ecologist who lives ...