Coral reefs are in decline around the world, and species are disappearing every day. But new species are being discovered, too. So, can society mitigate species loss by investing in species discovery? . . . → Read More: It’s not over!
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Marine aquarists have a photographic edge on field photographers. Their work is fixed, dry, and well-lit, while field photogs slosh back and forth with one finger on the camera and one on the reef while trying to avoid fire coral and maintain buoyancy. No wonder aquarists get such sharp focus. A favorite gallery for . . . → Read More: Friday Deep-Sea Picture : Coral Gallery (05/02/08)
It has been one amazing coraliscious week! I’m learning a ton and have enjoyed the guest articles and all the blogger contributions. Maybe you just can’t get enough coral, like me?? Well have I got the cure! As Bruce Dickinson might have said had known how fabulous deep sea coral is, “Guess what? I got . . . → Read More: If the Coral is a Hoppin’ Don’t Come a Knockin’
Coral Week is happening in the Pacific Northwest and New England, but its huge in Brazil! . . . → Read More: Coral Week across the Americas
Speaking of explosives, the nematocyst, or stinging cell, is one character that binds all cnidarians together. The nematocyst is “high tech cellular weaponry”, the unparalleled apex of organelle specialization (Boero et al 2007), and the fastest known biological structure (Tardent, 1995). From ScienceDaily, the discharge kinetics of nematocysts in Hydra to be as short . . . → Read More: The Nematocyst: apex of organelle specialization
News outlets enjoyed a field day last month reporting on the amazing vitality of Porites sp. coral colonies in the South Pacific Bikini Atoll where Americans tested the fifth most powerful atom bomb ever exploded 54 years ago. The Bravo bomb was a 1000 times more powerful than the bomb at Hiroshima. It vaporized three . . . → Read More: Footprint of the Atomic Age in the world’s oceans
People eat sea anemones and jellyfish, but they would have to be seriously, deliriously, Castaway hungry to eat a coral. Or else corals would have been gone long ago. But, … this does NOT mean coral is without natural enemies. . . . → Read More: Things that eat coral
The coelenterates, corals and their relatives, are very ancient, and in fact may be the oldest metazoans. Proterozoic burrows preserved in the Mackenzie Mountains of Northwest Canada were probably made by animals resembling cerianthid anemones, and are about one billion years old. . . . → Read More: Deep corals are old as the hills, archives of climate change
By Peter Etnoyer, on  April 29th, 2008  Leave a comment  Coral, Megavertebrate  coral week, hawaii, Megavertebrate, monk seal One of the challenges of deep coral research is convincing people that deep corals form habitat for other animals, animals of particular concern, like fish or crabs, or endangered species like the Hawaiian Monk Seal. Precious coral beds with large colonies of Gerardia sp. 550m deep in the French Frigate Shoals support higher fish . . . → Read More: Monk seals dig deep-corals, so we should, too
Bubblegum coral (Paragorgia arborea) never looked so… cuddly. It’s amazing. Who would believe someone could knit a sea fan and do it so well? Ecology Action Center in Halifax brings a unique perspective to the deep coral movement. They go straight to the fishermen for the information that counts, rather than waiting for science . . . → Read More: Stitchin’ Fish is knittin’ coral
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