We’re all familiar with La Jolla’s sea lions, harbor seals, orcas, garibaldi and seabirds. But in this series of stories called Species of the Month, the Light sheds light on other, lesser-known ...
A joint study by Tel Aviv University and the University of Haifa set out to solve a scientific mystery: how a soft coral is ...
This coral keeps time without a brain, showing how distributed nerve nets can synchronize movement across an entire animal.
We’re all familiar with La Jolla’s sea lions, harbor seals, orcas, garibaldi and seabirds. But in this series of stories called Species of the Month, the Light sheds light on other, lesser-known ...
Stony, rock hard corals are living animals, and here in Hawai i are known as koa. The coral animal is called a polyp, and it is a very tiny creature that looks like an upside-down jellyfish. These ...
On occasion, it is of vital importance to consider how little we know about the spinning rock we all live on. Take coral reefs, for example. Given how much they've been studied, you'd think we've ...
Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands have drawn inspiration from a tiny tentacled marine creature to produce a centimeter-scale robot that is powered by magnets and ...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (WSVN) — Scientists are sounding the alarm about an aggressive species of coral that has been spotted in the Caribbean and, they fear, is already in Florida. Paul Evans, a research ...
The soft-bodied sea anemone does not produce reef-forming rocky skeletons on its own, but was induced to produce skeleton creating proteins, turning it into a good model system for studying coral ...
Soft corals can emit a noxious brew of terpenes to kill their stony coral cousins and inhibit others from gaining a foothold. Stony corals retaliate by deploying sweeper tentacles, long whip-like ...
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