by Joe Rowlett | Jul 21, 2015 | Fish, Photography, Science
The oceans are full of interesting shallow water fishes, but all too often the ichthyological diversity collected for aquarists is limited to only those species which appear on tropical coral reefs.… by xeniaforever | Jul 20, 2015 | Corals, Eye Candy, Fish, Industry, Photography, ReefGen, Science, Sustainability, Tanks
Joe Yaiullo and his world-renowned aquarium and staff got to play host to Newsday’s Jimin Kim this week, and provided the reporter and his photographer, Thomas A. Ferrara, with a myriad of fascinating, behind-the-scenes views of the daily workings.... by Francis Yupangco | Jul 19, 2015 | Conservation, Fish, Photography
As if this summer of high profile shark attacks couldn’t get any worse, a  professional surfer had an extremely close encounter with two sharks during a competition in South Africa on Sunday — and the entire dramatic ordeal was captured on live... by Francis Yupangco | Jul 18, 2015 | Conservation, Fish, Photography, Science
When you think of a large school of sharks swimming close to shore Britain is not the first place that typically comes to mind.  But, this week, a school of dozens of Starry Smooth-Hound Sharks (Mustelus asterias) was filmed gathering in a small inlet in... by Matthew Stansbery | Jul 14, 2015 | Corals, Photography, Reef, Technology
Together with an international team of researchers, divers from the University of Southampton, UK, Tel Aviv University and the Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences (IUI), Israel have found a colorful range of pigments in coral more than 50 meters below the... by xeniaforever | Jul 3, 2015 | Conservation, Corals, Photography, Reefs in Art, Science
Two years ago, Barry and Aimee Brown began photographing “hidden” letters in the brain coral colonies around Curacao, the Caribbean island where they live. Their hunt, which sometimes took them as deep as 100 feet, gave them an even better understanding of...