Celebrating Sea Week 2026 | 'The Ocean Makes The Earth Habitable' 🌊 Did you know? 🌏 Healthy oceans are essential to life on our planet. 🔬 Microscopic marine organisms produce around 50% of the world’s oxygen. 🌧️ Ocean evaporation drives the global water cycle, producing clouds and rain that sustains life on land. 🫧 Over a quarter of human-generated CO₂ emissions are absorbed by the ocean. 🌀 Ocean currents move warm and cold water aound the planet that regulates global climates. 🐟 The ocea

The moon's phases shape tides, currents, and even fish behaviors! 🌕 🌊 At our Animal Care Center in Quincy, we're exploring how moon phases impact spawning and whether they influence reproductive behaviors, like those of our weedy seadragons and lookdowns. We're also working to replicate natural habitats that encourage these behaviors! A full moon can trigger schooling behaviors, while a new moon offers a safer environment for fish to venture into open water! Tides also affect water levels in i