Coral reefs are teeming with life: they are home to over a third of all marine animal and plant species on Earth, despite covering less than one percent of the ocean floor. However, this immense ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For Les Watling, ecologist and professor emeritus at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, the name for a new species of deep-sea ...
Several years worth of findings from a floating laboratory have tapped into a well-stocked coral library of taxonomic, ...
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Endangered coral 'pharmacy' hides hundreds of microbes with untapped cures
Scientists aboard the Tara Pacific expedition have cataloged thousands of previously unknown microbial species living inside reef-building corals, revealing a vast reservoir of biological compounds ...
Giant clams (Tridacna gigas), members of the family Tridacnidae and among the most striking inhabitants of tropical coral ...
The study’s findings contained evidence that the memory response is likely connected to tiny microbial communities that live among the corals, and understanding how that works is important for future ...
OSU coral researcher Alex Vompe off the north shore of Mo'orea (photo by Mackenzie Kawahara). CORVALLIS, Ore. – Some coral species can be resilient to marine heat waves by “remembering” how they lived ...
The bamboo coral _Isidella_ displaying bioluminescence in the Caribbean in 2009. Sönke Johnsen, CC BY-ND Our research focuses on octocorals – soft-bodied corals such as sea fans that have treelike ...
Florida’s coral reefs have been on the decline for decades, and it looks like things could get a whole lot worse. Seven species of coral found in Florida and Caribbean waters “are extremely likely to ...
Proposed Endangered Species Act rollbacks and military expansions are leaving the Pacific’s most diverse coral reefs legally defenseless.
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In Thailand, a coral cryobank tries to buy time for dying reefs
By Neelanjana Rai In a quiet laboratory at Phuket Rajabhat University in southern Thailand, Preeyanuch Thongpoo is attempting ...
Some coral species can be resilient to marine heat waves by 'remembering' how they lived through previous ones, research suggests. Some coral species can be resilient to marine heat waves by ...
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