Kissing Corals

The BUM underwater microscope we reported about earlier this week is already producing some exciting footage that may show a phenomenon we've never seen before: polyps "kissing" each other.

SECORE’s important reef conservation work

SECORE is a global coral reef conservation group involved in research, education, outreach, and reef restoration. They share with us a new film summarizing their important work. Share this video so your friends can get involved with SECORE. It's an excellent cause!

Scientist develop first underwater microscope to study corals

To date, studying corals at the microscopic level was confined to artificial laboratory settings. The Scripps Institution of Oceanography in California has designed and built a beast of a microscope that works undersea, allowing researchers (for the first time) to study corals in the wild at nearly micrometre resolution.