A survival strategy that has been a triumphant success for cardinalfishes for going on 50 million years could come unstuck under rapid global warming, scientists from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and James Cook University have found.
We’ve seen how Fungiid corals can inflate and deflate themselves in order to combat sedimentation. However, other corals aren’t as lucky as these Fungiids and they need help from outside sources.
In their paper “How far do schools of roving herbivores rove? A case study using Scarus rivulatus” scientists monitored the rivulated parrotfish (pictured above) to better understand its range and schooling behavior.
Yoda purpurata, along with three other new acorn worm species were discovered 1.5 miles under the Atlantic Ocean during a recent survey of the mid-Atlantic Ridge.
We are pleased to present Coral Morphologic 2, an album of nine records inspired by the corals’ cosmic ability to synchronize their lives to Earth’s daily rotation upon its axis, the Moon’s monthly trip around Earth, and Earth’s yearly orbit of the Sun.…
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From the Department of Chemistry at the University of Copenhagen:
Dirk Müter is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry’s NanoGeoScience research group. He headed the project, which is now now published in Acta Biomaterialia under the title, “Microstructure and micromechanics of the heart urchin test from X-ray tomography”.
Longhorn cowfish. Photo by Michael Apel
From the University of California at San Diego:
The boxfish’s unique armor draws its strength from hexagon-shaped scales and the connections between them, engineers at the University of California, San Diego, have found.