Using an innovative new approach to sampling corals, researchers at the University of Hawai'i (UH) at Mānoa are now able to create maps of coral biochemistry that reveal with unprecedented detail the ...
TAMPA, FLA. (WSVN) - The Florida Aquarium in Tampa is restoring reefs one polyp at a time. Aquarium workers transplanted 9,000 baby coral polyps born at the conservation center. All of them will ...
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Coral reefs are often described as the rainforests of the sea. The (typically) vibrantly colored underwater ecosystems are built by colonies of tiny animals called polyps. Coral reefs provide shelter ...
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Earth Day: What if Earth lost all its coral reefs?
How many sea animals would face extinction? Could the corals rebuild themselves from scratch? How would this massive die-off ...
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Coral survival rates jump when scientists change the chemical composition of the tiles baby corals grow on
A baby coral, freshly settled on a reef surface, faces terrible odds. Predators graze over it. Sediment smothers it. And as ...
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 ...
Abraham “Snake” Ah Hee rides waves when the surf’s up and dives for octopus and shells when the water is calm. The lifelong Lahaina, Hawaii, resident spends so much time in the ocean that his wife ...
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