by AquaNerd | Jul 10, 2016 | Conservation, Corals, Fish, Photography, Reef, Science, Travel
The first time I dived on Raja Ampat’s reefs, I didn’t know where to look first. The profusion of colors and the seeming chaos of the Indonesia reef’s appearance — not a single straight line to be seen — provided a total contrast to the orderly, human-built world we usually inhabit topside.
<![CDATA[ #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } ]]> MORE: Hunting down the world’s oldest art in South Sulawesi, Indonesia Photos and video struggle to ever do Raja Ampat’s reefs justice. They just can’t fully capture the all-encompassing sense of the reef’s by AquaNerd | Jul 8, 2016 | Conservation, Fish, Reef, Science
Researchers in Texas have discovered an extremely rare, eyeless catfish once thought only to exist in Mexico. A pair of the endangered Mexican blindcat (Prietella phreatophila) was discovered in the depths of a limestone cave at Amistad National Recreation Area near Del Rio, Texas. The pair has since been moved to the San Antonio Zoo. “Since the 1960s, there have been rumors of sightings of blind, white catfishes in that area, but this is the first confirmation,” Dean Hendrickson, curator of ichthyology at the University of Texas at Austin, said in a press release. “I’ve seen more of these things than anybody, and these specimens look just like the ones from Mexico.” The Mexican blindcat is a species that grows no more than 3 inches by Admin | Jul 7, 2016 | Conservation, Fish, Science
I’ve occasionally heard rumors of lionfish being spotted in the Mediterranean Sea; earlier in the year one was seen in the waters around Cyprus, and another record suggests that the fish were seen off the coast of Israel as far back as... by Francis Yupangco | Jun 19, 2016 | Conservation, Fish
The fight to stop the shark trade is fought on many fronts. Conservationists are reaching out to shipping companies and airlines to join the “fly #sharkfree” movement in an effort to stop the illegal shark... by Francis Yupangco | Jun 17, 2016 | Conservation, Tanks
Aquariums and the public are constantly changing with the times. While dolphins and whales were a must see in aquariums fifty years ago, what people want to see from a public aquarium is not the same as it once... by Matthew Stansbery | Jun 14, 2016 | Conservation, Corals, Reef, Technology
Algorithms help us navigate the twists and turns of our everyday lives, but researches from North Western University have developed one to assist coral reefs in their daily struggles against ocean warming.…
