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- In recreational fishing, a lure is an object that is attached to the end of the fishing line and designed to resemble and move like prey. The ...10 KB (1,609 words) - 17:31, 28 March 2024
- Lake Tanganyika is a large lake in Central Africa that is estimated to be the second largest freshwater lake in the world by volume and the second ...12 KB (1,887 words) - 23:20, 21 October 2022
- Desalination (or desalinization or desalinisation) refers to any of several processes that remove excess salt and other minerals from water. ...20 KB (2,876 words) - 09:52, 29 January 2024
- James Lind (1716 in Edinburgh – 1794 in Gosport) was a Scottish doctor and a pioneer of naval hygiene in the Royal Navy, and is particularly ...13 KB (2,046 words) - 21:20, 20 March 2024
- Shellfish is a a broad term for various aquatic mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms that are used as food. A culinary and fisheries term, ...11 KB (1,582 words) - 19:57, 21 April 2023
- Akysidae Amblycipitidae Amphiliidae Ariidae Aspredinidae Astroblepidae Auchenipteridae Bagridae Callichthyidae Cetopsidae Chacidae ...17 KB (2,573 words) - 01:37, 13 January 2023
- Calcarea Hexactinellida Demospongiae The sponges or poriferans (from Latin porus meaning "pore," and ferre meaning "to bear" ...15 KB (2,195 words) - 18:05, 14 October 2022
- Rotifers comprise a phylum, Rotifera, of microscopic and near-microscopic, multicellular aquatic animals. The name rotifer is derived from the ...11 KB (1,517 words) - 21:46, 16 April 2023
- The Colorado River flows 1,450 mi (2,330 km) from its headwaters in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado south into Mexico, where it empties into ...24 KB (3,618 words) - 22:40, 7 January 2024
- Category:Public [[Image:Water cycle.png|right|thumb|400px|The movement of water around, over, and through the Earth is called the water cycle.]] ...15 KB (2,199 words) - 23:16, 3 May 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Life sciences Category:Lifestyle Category:Food [[Image:Caviar.jpg#file|thumb|right|220px|Caviar]] ...16 KB (2,370 words) - 16:22, 3 December 2023
- Robert Hooke (July 18, 1635 – March 3, 1703) was an English polymath, a scientist, mathematician, and architect, who played an important role ...11 KB (1,559 words) - 17:09, 15 March 2024
- Limpet is the common name for any of the marine gastropod mollusks comprising the order Patellogastropoda, characterized in extant forms by a ...20 KB (2,800 words) - 08:45, 8 March 2023
- Moray eel is the common name for any of the marine eels comprising the family Muraenidae of the order Anguilliformes. They are characterized ...12 KB (1,839 words) - 21:21, 9 November 2022
- Mite is the common name for various minute (often microscopic) arachnids (class Arachnida) in the subclass Acarina (or Acari), a taxon of arthropods ...12 KB (1,813 words) - 19:20, 9 November 2022
- Grebe is the common name for any of the swimming and diving birds comprising the family Podicipedidae, characterized by a pointed bill, short ...15 KB (2,144 words) - 19:50, 24 May 2024
- Salmon is the common name for several species of large food and game fish clustered into the two genera, Salmo and Oncorhynchus, in the family ...27 KB (4,219 words) - 21:58, 17 April 2023
- Monogenea Trematoda Cestoda Turbellaria The flatworms are a phylum, Platyhelminthes, of relatively simple, soft-bodied, bilaterially symmetrical ...12 KB (1,667 words) - 20:17, 31 July 2022
- Methylene blue (or MB) is a basic aniline dye with the molecular formula C16H18N3SCl. At room temperature, it appears as a solid, odorless, dark ...13 KB (1,911 words) - 16:28, 9 November 2022
- Lake Superior, bounded by Ontario, Canada, and the U.S. state of Minnesota to the north, and the states of Wisconsin and Michigan to the south ...18 KB (2,634 words) - 23:19, 21 October 2022
