I think it’s fair to say that when most folks think about conservation, or biology in general, money is not the first thing that pops into their heads. Indeed, many people I know in those fields consider money, commerce and economics to be somewhat foreign, a necessary evil perhaps, to keep society going and keep . . . → Read More: For sale?: one reef, well-loved
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By para_sight, on  February 8th, 2012  2 comments  Biodiversity, Climate Change, Conferences, Conservation & Environment, Coral  Coral Restoration Foundation, Georgia Aquarium, PERC By Kevin Zelnio, on December 9th, 2011 Leave a comment Adaptations, Coral, TGIF: Pictures & Movies BBC, bbc earth, BBC Oceans, coral reefs, Diving, Fluorescence, Phillipe Cousteau, red sea From BBC Earth Youtube page: Phillipe Coustaeau and the team dive in the Red Sea, one of the warmest seas in the world. Despite the warm temperatures, coral reefs flourish with their flourescent pigmentation putting on an amazing show of technicolour. Fantastic clip taken from the BBC Oceans series. Visit http://www.bbcearth.com for all the latest animal . . . → Read More: TGIF – Underwater Fluorescent Disco
By para_sight, on September 24th, 2011 Leave a comment Conferences, Coral, Education, Expeditions, Life At Sea, New Research Aquarius, coral reefs, Florida Keys, Georgia Aquarium, georgia tech, Reefbase, UNCW Ten days ago I had a conversation with Dr. Mark Hay from Georgia Tech where he was at the Aquarius ReefBase habitat on the bottom of the Florida Keys and I was at the ice breaker for the annual Association of Zoos and Aquariums meeting hosted at Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta. We were talking about . . . → Read More: A conversation with Mark Hay aboard the Aquarius habitat
By RickMac, on September 23rd, 2011 One comment Cephalopods!, Coral, Critters, Mating & Reproduction Bow-Chicka-Wow-Wow, Gettin' It On, Mating, sex A friend of CORAL, Dr Steve Cohen, passed along this great footage he captured of some randy cuttlefish on the reefs at the Wakatobi Dive Resort in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia. No lascivious copulation, sneaker males, or sperm displacement observed, but cool nonetheless. Thanks Steve! A friend of CORAL, Dr Steve Cohen, passed along this . . . → Read More: Your Friday Cuttlefish
By RickMac, on September 9th, 2011 2 comments Biodiversity, Conservation & Environment, Coral, Ecology, Fish, Fishing, Megavertebrate Shark Sanctuary, sharks By now you’ve no doubt noticed that international shark protections (well, at least legislative shark protections) are beginning to pile-up. It can be truly said that the past few months of 2011 will go down as Summer of the Shark. On June 24, Honduras declared their waters as a permanent shark sanctuary. On July . . . → Read More: Fijians Hope Lives in “Shark Hope”
By RickMac, on August 16th, 2011 Leave a comment Adaptations, Biodiversity, Coral, Evolution, Fish zomg "La La La La….Nothing to see here!" CREDIT: Brooker, et al., Coral Reefs, Sept. 2011 After reading a recent paper in the journal Coral Reefs on the ability of Harlequin filefish (Oxymonacanthus longirostris) to masquerade as branching stony coral (abstract only), two facts are inescapable: 1) Evolution freakin’ rocks! 2) Vertebrates are just invertebrate wannabe’s. . . . → Read More: Invertebrate Wannabe
By Dr. M, on August 1st, 2011 5 comments Adaptations, Biodiversity, Cephalopods!, Coral, Critters, Ecology, New Research, Open Access Anemone, Behavior, behaviour, Cephalopod, nervous system, personality, self-orgazing, Snail Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures-F. Scott Fitzgerald Quirky, sheepish, fun-loving, lethargic, energetic, aloof, courageous, sensitive You might invoke these words to describe your friends and family. Indeed, you recognize them all by their distinctive personalities. You may even use these terms to describe your beloved dog or cat. But it is hard . . . → Read More: The many personalities of snails and anemones
By Kevin Zelnio, on May 31st, 2011 One comment Archaeology, History, and Art, Books/Media, Coral Charles Darwin, Coral, David Dobbs, Louis Agassiz, Reef Madness In a very generous online experiment, science writer and blogger at Wired Science David Dobbs, is putting up his entire book Reef Madness in small chunks on his blog Neuron Culture. Here at Neuron Culture I’m going to serially publish significant chunks of my book Reef Madness: Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the Meaning of . . . → Read More: Reef Madness!
By RickMac, on April 24th, 2011 2 comments Bringin' It, Conservation & Environment, Coral, Ecology, Fish, Fishing, Megavertebrate conservation, sharks 2011, Cancun Foros (http://www.cancunforos.com); Cartoon Translation: Abelardo Vara (President of Cancun Hotel Association) says you have to kill sharks to avoid exposing Caribbean tourism. Vara: "These sharks are imbeciles attacking anything that stands between them and their food." Shark: "That's curious…. We think the same of you." My life for the past few months . . . → Read More: Sharks, The News Cycle, And The Madness of Mobs
By Dr. M, on April 1st, 2011 4 comments Biodiversity, Coral, Ecology, Life Science, Oil Spills age, Arminius, Augustus, Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, black coral, Coral, Germanic, growth rate, Leiopathes, lifespan, nuclear bomb testing, Radiation, radiocarbon dating, Romans, tree rings, Varsus Arminius The year is 9CE. Fourteen years later Pliny the Elder will be Pliny the Newly Born. Cai Lun will invent paper one hundred years later. In Northern Germany a storm unleashes on 30,000 Roman soldiers under the command of Publius Quinctilius Varus. Varus’s most trusted advisor, Arminius, was the son of a Germanic war . . . → Read More: A Tale of Germanic Chieftains and Deep-Sea Corals
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