Coral reefs are famous for their beautiful colours, but in fact when I visit them I am usually surprised how colourful reefs AREN’T. Most healthy corals have a sort of dusty tan or pink hue to them, and it’s only on reefs with particularly high coral cover, superb water clarity and bright overhead sun that . . . → Read More: TGIF – The spectacular fluorescent colours of Coral Reefs
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By para_sight, on  November 30th, 2012  19 comments  Adaptations, Coral, Organisms, Pictures and Movies  bioluminescence, Coral, coral reef, Fluorescence, red sea, scuba By Kevin Zelnio, on December 9th, 2011 Leave a comment Adaptations, Coral, Pictures and 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 . . . → Read More: TGIF – Underwater Fluorescent Disco
By Peter Etnoyer, on February 12th, 2009 4 comments Coral, Organisms, Reviews coral reef, indonesia, kids, National Geographic, Octocoral, red sea, scuba diving, seahorse, video Satomi's pygmy seahorse, one of the world's smallest seahorses. It’s going to be much easier to convince people Sea Fans are Super Cool now that National Geographic photographers trained their lens on new species of pygmy sea horses from Indonesia and the Red Sea. Headlines are saying the pygmy wonder horses are endemic (hello) to . . . → Read More: Seahorses: nice backdrops for octocorals
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