Five New Species Of Blanket-hermit Crabs
Hermit crabs are famed for the snail shells that they so dearly love, but the group is in fact highly diverse and known to occupy a wide variety of structures (the... Read more.
Our Best Look Yet At The “Great Amazon Reef”
Around this time last year, a flurry of media coverage was directed at the exciting “discovery” of a large coral reef ecosystem found lurking in a very unexpected... Read more.
Okeanos Is Back With A Weird Purple Squid
The Okeanos Explorer is back in action and busily probing the Gulf of Mexico’s silted ocean floor. In the first few dives we’ve been treated to some impressive... Read more.
The Orange Conger-moray Is An EELusive Beauty From The Deep
Conger-morays are a weird little family (Myrocongridae: Myroconger) that few have ever heard of and fewer still have had the good fortune to see alive. The handful... Read more.
The Severe Health Risk Posed By The Caribbean Condylactis Anemone
There is a great disparity in the relative strength of sea anemone stings. Many of the smaller species are quite harmless to man (e.g. Phymanthus, Exaiptasia), while... Read more.
Rhodactis Mushroom Corals Are Surprisingly Deadly
The Green Hairy Mushroom Coral is a common sight on Indo-Pacific coral reefs and shows up regularly in aquarium exports, but, while it might seem harmless enough,... Read more.
Xenia Does NOT Contain Palytoxin
Q: What happens when you combine a misinformed aquarist and a few lazy journalists? A: Poorly researched articles claiming that Xenia contains palytoxin. In late... Read more.
Stupid Aquarist Releases Blue Xenia & Clove Polyps In Brazil
The presence of some new invasive soft corals has just been reported in the West Atlantic, and, more likely than not, it’s an aquarist that’s responsible. Brazilian... Read more.
How To Identify The Caledonian Anemonefish
The Amphiprion clarkii complex is overflowing with unrecognized species-level biodiversity, and one of the more attractive examples can be found in the Southwest... Read more.
Palytoxin Cures Cancer?
Palytoxin sure has been getting a lot of bad press lately. Last week, there was the widely reported story of a British family, along with four firefighters, who... Read more.