by CORAL Magazine | Mar 13, 2013 | CORAL Excerpt, Marine
A new study by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego scientists has revealed that fluorescence, the dazzling but poorly understood glow produced by many corals, can be an effective tool for gauging their health. The researchers suggest that measuring the...
by CORAL Magazine | Mar 13, 2013 | CORAL Excerpt, Marine
Moray Eels. Part 7 of the DVD, “Reef Life of the Andaman,” available at http://www.bubblevision.com/marine-li… or view the whole 2-hour video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ncUVd… This video features 11 species of moray eel from the Mergui...
by Ronald L. Shimek, PhD | Mar 9, 2013 | CORAL - Ronald L. Shimek, PhD, Marine
One of the more unlikely places to find a nice image of one of my favorite types of invertebrates is the Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD). Normally, these images are of beautiful or interesting astronomical objects or spacecraft or terrestrial images somehow...
by CORAL Magazine | Mar 7, 2013 | CORAL Excerpt, Marine
CLOWNFISH SUPPLEMENT ANEMONE OXYGEN BY FANNING AT NIGHT The symbiotic relationship between anemonefishes and their host sea anemones has long been studied, but now researchers have found an apparent new benefit to the invertebrate partner. Fending off peckish anemone...
by Anne Linton | Mar 1, 2013 | CORAL Tables of Contents, Marine
ZOANTHIDS VOLUME 10, NUMBER 2 4 Letter From Europe by Daniel Knop 7 Editor’s Page by James M. Lawrence 8 Letters 12 Reef News 24 Rarities: Pseudocoris Wrasses by Scott W. Michael FEATURE ARTICLES 32 A Zeal For Zoanthids by Daniel Knop 36 Things...
by Ronald L. Shimek, PhD | Feb 27, 2013 | CORAL - Ronald L. Shimek, PhD, Marine
This is my introduction to the readers of the Reef2Rainforest site, where I will, in a manner reminiscent of an old and ancient city, be babbling on about a non-existent group of animals. Just as one can’t prove a negative proposition, such as “There are...
