A fascinating introduction to the diversity of habitats that comprise the North America shoreline -- The edge of the sea. The shifting demarcation between the permanence of the vast oceans and the temporality of land. The junction where an organism left the waters to take those first few stumbling steps onto the dry shore. -- This video looks at the ecosystems and food chains of the North America shoreline and provides detailed observations of anemones, corals, hydroids, bryozoans, sea squirts, nudibranches, sea urchins, brittle stars, sea cucumbers, flatworms, ribbon worms, ornate polychaete worms, shrimp, crabs, and the larval stages of the major invertebrate lines. Closed captioning. 30 minutes. |
