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Nausicca, Europe’s largest aquarium located in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, has enhanced two of its major marine exhibitions with spectacular new displays. Stopovers in the Mediterranean now features a space devoted entirely to shipwrecks, created to allow visitors – like a diver – to discover creatures that have made the underwater habitat their new home – including the … Read more
NAUSICAA, the French National Sea Centre in Boulogne-sur-Mer (France), has welcomed three frilled lizards to its new ‘Island Stories’ exhibition. Native to Australia and Papua New Guinea, the frilled lizard spends most of its time in trees, only visiting the ground to hunt for insects such as caterpillars and beetles. The lizard gets the name ‘frilled’ … Read more
NAUSICAA, the French National Sea Centre in Boulogne-sur-Mer (France), has undergone a massive expansion which will launch on Saturday 19th May, making it one of the largest aquariums in the world. The new large-scale structure is a real architectural, aquatic and technical triumph for NAUSICAA and the first of its kind Europe. Built in the … Read more
On Saturday 28th January, NAUSICAA, the French National Sea Centre, opened its doors again in Boulogne after three busy weeks of annual maintenance carried out by the NAUSICAA team. As soon as the centre re-opened, the topic of sustainable tourism was highlighted in the Mangrove area, through a number of new animals. The latest arrivals … Read more
A year ago, NAUSICAA, the French National Sea Centre in Boulogne-sur-Mer, joined forces with the MEGAPTERA Association to launch a crowdfunding project for the tagging of the world’s largest fish, the whale shark. The project was successful and one of NAUSICAA’s diver-handlers joined the MEGAPTERA teami n Djibouti just before Christmas where the tag was … Read more
To mark its 25th anniversary, NAUSICAA, the French National Sea Life Centre in Boulogne, designed a colourful new exhibition inspired by tropical forests and recently a pair of veiled chameleons (Chamaeleo calyptratus), which have been part of the exhibition since early in 2016, gave birth to some 30 very healthy little chameleons. The babies were … Read more
To mark its 25th anniversary, NAUSICAA, the French Sea Life Centre in Boulogne, has created a colourful new exhibition inspired by the tropical forest. When it comes to biodiversity, land and sea are totally interlinked, forming a single ecosystem. Just like a coral reef, the tropical forest is a symbol of biodiversity. On display are frogs, geckos, … Read more
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