Materials researchers love sea creatures. Mother-of-pearl provokes ideas for smooth surfaces, clams inspire gluey substances, shark’s skin is used to develop materials that reduce drag in water, and so on. Researchers at the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Chemistry have now found a [...]
When you think of the world’s greatest athletes, names like Usain Bolt generally spring to mind, but scientists have discovered the best athletes could well be found in the water, covered in [...]
Florida State University researchers analyzed the genes from four generations of guppies exposed to changing environments. They discovered that these fish were able to change their gene expression with remarkable speed. However, it was the genes that responded the "wrong way" that evolved most [...]
Oddball reef creatures (e.g. mantis shrimp) are muses for scientists and engineers. UCSD researchers are drawing upon longhorn cowfish (AKA boxfish) to design new materials for body armor and flexible [...]
Marine Aquarium Society of North America is currently holding its 2015 membership drive. The drive is sponsored by Tunze; new members will have a chance to win a Tunze Osmolator 3155. Plus $5 of each new renewal also goes towards Gary Meadows Reef [...]
The first feeding study of the Irukandji box jellyfish has found that they actively fish. They attract larval fish by twitching their extended tentacles, highlighting their nematocyst clusters (stinging structures) and using them as [...]
New research by NOAA Fisheries has revealed the opah, or moonfish, as the first fully warm-blooded fish that circulates heated blood throughout its body much like mammals and birds, giving it a competitive advantage in the cold ocean [...]
Scientists have procreated Dendrogyra cylindrus in laboratory aquariums for the first time. Pillar Corals are unique stony corals from the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, which grow in the shape of tall "smoke-stack" pillars (hence their name) [...]