by James Lawrence | Jul 8, 2022 | CORAL Excerpt, Marine
Centropyge expert Dr. Richard L. Pyle with preserved specimens and his rebreather apparatus at the Bishop Museum in Honolulu. You say loricula, I say loriculus…Excerpt from Editor’s Page, CORAL Magazine, July/August 2022 Cannibals, he wrote, were his greatest...
by James Lawrence | Mar 31, 2022 | CORAL - James Lawrence, CORAL Excerpt, Marine, News & Notes
Left to right: Project leaders Lyle Squire of Cairns Marine, pre-eminent coral scentist Dr. J.E.N. (Charlie) Veron, and Dr. Dean Miller of Great Barrier Reef Legacy at Cairns Marine, temporary holding facility for broodstock corals. an excerpt from the March/April...
by James Lawrence | Jan 8, 2021 | CORAL - James Lawrence, CORAL Excerpt, Marine
Excerpt from the Editor’s Page of the January/February 2021 issue of CORAL Magazine. This issue should probably come with a warning label: CAUTION—Contents may trigger obsessive, addictive, and budget-stretching behaviors. Who among us has not thrilled at the...
by James Lawrence | Nov 5, 2020 | CORAL Excerpt, Marine
The Blue Velvet Sea Slug (Chelidonura varians) sucks in flatworms like a vacuum cleaner, but this trophic specialist usually can’t survive long in the aquarium. There were high hopes it would help win battles against flatworms, but these hardly ever came to fruition....
by James Lawrence | Sep 10, 2020 | CORAL Excerpt, Marine
Editor’s Page Excerpt from CORAL, September/October 2020 It was enough to send us scrambling for the field guides and our copy of Audubon’s Birds of America. This morning’s breakfast reading happened to be our village weekly paper with an item on Red-bellied...