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Written by David DeFranza
The ocean is a delicate place, and tiny changes to its composition can cause serious devastation.
Adding carbon to the atmosphere contributes to global warming and climate change. Another less-discussed impact is ocean acidification—whereby carbon molecules diffuse into the ocean from the atmosphere, causing a steady rise in acidity—even though the impacts are already being felt by many species.
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1. Blue Sea Slug
The beautiful blue sea slug, seen here, is one such creature. Blue sea slugs feed on the poisonous Portuguese man of war jellyfish, meaning that an ocean without them would be an ocean with a lot more stinging jellyfish.
Top photo from Gregory Moine via flickr.
Read more: endangered species, marine life, ocean, ocean acidification, treehugger
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+ add your ownwe need to step up and protect these creatures!
We need to do a better job in protecting our Oceans
Finding Nemo was about a clownfish. These are all such interesting ocean creatures. It's a shame we're destroying the biodiversity nature has given us.
Blue sea slugs feed on the poisonous Portuguese man of war jellyfish,
I wonder how big this creature is and I seen the Portuguese man of war jellyfish and some of them are huge! I hate when they show photos with no real info.
They are headed for extinction and we are just one button away from it!
Who is going first?
Cool article. These animals are beautiful, and we need to do what we can to help them!
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Thank-you..such beautiful creatures
Beautiful creatures but doomed to extinction. Save them, please.
amazing pics!!
Extinction meas FOREVER! Save our wild..
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