by CORAL Magazine | Dec 18, 2020 | Marine, News & Notes
Midnight Snapper (Macolor macularis), younger specimen with the potential to live for many decades. Image: Rickard Zerke/Wiki Commons An 81-year-old Midnight Snapper caught off the coast of Western Australia has taken the title of the oldest tropical reef fish...
by CORAL Magazine | Dec 18, 2020 | CORAL - Matt Pedersen, Marine
Can you identify this marine invertebrate? Hint: It is not Christmas Tree Worms. Image by Vincent Chalias/Bali Aquarium. Excerpt from Reef VisionsEdited by Matt PedersenJanuary/February 2021 CORAL RED & GOLD CYCLOSERISCycloseris sp.Bali AquariumDenpasar, Bali,...
by CORAL Magazine | Dec 11, 2020 | Marine
Shark squalene is a key ingredient in some vaccines, fact of major concern to marine biologists. Graphic: Jeff Kepler@seventh.voyage/Shark Allies Lost in the breathless reporting about the global rush to produce and administer Covid-19 vaccines is the very real...
by CORAL Magazine | Dec 11, 2020 | Marine, News & Notes
Branson’s new Aquarium at the Boardwalk promises something spectacular from the moment you walk up, as this exterior rendering demonstrates. The 55-foot-tall stainless steel sculpture of Aquarius the Octopus is currently being completed; we’ll update with...
by CORAL Magazine | Nov 20, 2020 | Marine, News & Notes
Stray light from coastal development can severely disrupt coral reproductive cycles, new study finds—and blue-spectrum LED lighting is the worst. Satellite view of earth at night in the western hemisphere showing “skyglow” of human development. Stray light...
