From the Barber lab at UCLA comes this awesome video. Not only can they sing better than most biologists, but the lyrics are great! I…
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TGIF – 100% live coral cover
Right now our own @rmacpherson is in the Pacific, talking coral and shark conservation Fiji. In honour of his trip, here is a beautiful video…
View More TGIF – 100% live coral coverWill marine conservation miss out at the next CITES meeting?
CITES is the 1973 Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, to which 175 nations are signatories. Along with the IUCN Red List, it’s one…
View More Will marine conservation miss out at the next CITES meeting?TGIF – Exallias brevis, a very special fish
My good colleague Dr. Bruce Carlson just uploaded a very nice short YouTube video about a reef blenny called Exallias brevis. Exallias is fairly special…
View More TGIF – Exallias brevis, a very special fishFor sale?: one reef, well-loved
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…
View More For sale?: one reef, well-lovedTGIF – Underwater Fluorescent Disco
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…
View More TGIF – Underwater Fluorescent DiscoA conversation with Mark Hay aboard the Aquarius habitat
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…
View More A conversation with Mark Hay aboard the Aquarius habitatYour Friday Cuttlefish
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…
View More Your Friday CuttlefishFijians Hope Lives in “Shark Hope”
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…
View More Fijians Hope Lives in “Shark Hope”Invertebrate Wannabe
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…
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