Kim Stone, director of fish and invertebrates at the Georgia Aquarium, holds a colony of confiscated marine corals in a back room of the aquarium, in Atlanta, May 23, 2024. You might imagine that when ...
This coral keeps time without a brain, showing how distributed nerve nets can synchronize movement across an entire animal.
The bamboo coral _Isidella_ displaying bioluminescence in the Caribbean in 2009. Sönke Johnsen, CC BY-ND Our research focuses on octocorals – soft-bodied corals such as sea fans that have treelike ...
A joint study by Tel Aviv University and the University of Haifa set out to solve a scientific mystery: how a soft coral is ...
This image provided by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in April 2024 shows bioluminescence in the sea whip coral Funiculina sp. observed under red light in a laboratory. Most animals that ...
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The Hidden World of Cold-Water Corals Rises to the Surface With These Glass Sculptures That Are Resurrecting a Lost Craft
As increased industrial activity puts fragile deep-sea ecosystems at risk, one artist is raising awareness about imperiled ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Many animals can glow in the dark. Fireflies famously blink on summer evenings. But most animals that light up are found in the depths of the ocean. In a new study, scientists report ...
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