A field of purple urchins, each in a recessed hollow. Photo by Steve Jurvetson / Flickr.
In their paper “Indirect consequences of fishing: reduction of coralline algae suppresses juvenile coral abundance,” researchers O’Leary, Potts, Braga and McClanahan elaborate on this finding.
Ice fishing – under the ice?
This video was shot by Juuso Mettälä at Lake Saarijärvi in Vaala, Finland. All-in-all, the video took six divers to film: three actors, the cameraman (Juuso), and two safety divers.
January 2012 issue cover.
This month’s issue is 43 pages in length (PDF), is a 12.8 MB download, and only costs $0.99! It comes in three formats (PDF, Kindle, and Nook) which makes it great for taking it wherever you go.
Fishermen deploy the deep-water autonomous underwater listening system (DAULS) inside a commercial deep-sea crab trap.
Could deep-sea fish be using sound to communicate? Rodney Rountree, Francis Juanes and other researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst believe they could be.
Snaggletooth subfamily of dragonfishes ( Astronesthes similus ). Gulf of Mexico. NOAA photo library / Flickr.
Christopher Kenaley of Harvard University wanted to understand what benefit (if any) do the needle-shaped teeth endow to this fish family.
A crown-of-thorns starfish on a reef in Fiji. Photo by Matt Wright / Flickr.
According to the Australian Institute of Marine Science Research Director Dr. Peter Doherty, the conditions are very favorable for another invasion as recent floods have increased the spawning activity of the already existing crown-of-thorns starfish in the Cairns area of the Great Barrier Reef.
Red Tide Luminescense. Photo by catalano82 / Flickr.
The bioluminescent tide this past September 2011 in San Diego, CA was a beautiful sight and was captured by many amateur and professional videographers.
Mini Migaloo.
Migaloo is supposedly the world’s only albino humpback whale in existence and was first observed on June 28, 1991 at Byron Bay, Australia.
Amphiprion ocellaris.
Work performed by Philip Munday and other researchers at the James Cook University in Townsville, Queensland, Australia has shown that high carbon dioxide levels severely affect fish, making them bolder and attracted to scents that they would avoid in nature.
A cone snail stalking its prey.
The cone snail is classified in the Conus genus, which is very large (over 600 species) and comprises predatory snails from small to large. It’s tropical and every single one of them is venomous.