by James Lawrence | Nov 18, 2013 | Marine
Although best-known as the home of the world’s largest living lizard, Komodo National Park in the Lesser Sunda Islands of Indonesia is also a noteworthy dive destination that attracts biodiversity researchers doing marine species surveys in the Coral Triangle....
by James Lawrence | Nov 7, 2013 | Marine
The old proverb about a leopard not being able to change its spots now has a new biological footnote after researchers in Australian recently found that fish exposed to predatory danger can, indeed, transform their spots to make them less vulnerable to attack. Working...
by CORAL Magazine | Sep 24, 2013 | Marine
“On September 23rd, 2013 we observed another spawning event on our coral greenhouse. “At approximately 7:45 pm nearly all fragments of our Blue Voodoo (Acropora sp.) spawned. These corals are split up into multiple tanks and isolated systems, yet their...
by CORAL Magazine | Sep 21, 2013 | Marine
New study will look at a reported trend of stony corals losing ground to gorgonians on Caribbean reefs A new study investigates why gorgonian corals, which can form a ‘canopy’ over reefs, appear to be proliferating in certain places. BUFFALO, N.Y. — As Earth’s...
by Ronald L. Shimek, PhD | Sep 13, 2013 | CORAL - Ronald L. Shimek, PhD, Marine
Instead of Peter, Peter, Pumpkin-Eater, the phrase about Mantas entered my laughingly limited lexicon in the spring of 1991 when a few folks I knew, and a larger bunch that I didn’t, took a diving trip to Micronesia. Of course, I went along to look at the...
