by Ronald L. Shimek, PhD | Jul 7, 2014 | CORAL - Ronald L. Shimek, PhD, Marine
Editor: This is Dr.Ron Shimek’s note about a image of feather dusters that recently arrived at A&M Aquatics in Lansing, Michigan, and were photographed by Ryan Shelander for a Rarities piece in the current issue of CORAL. Brian Wagner, also of A&M says...
by CORAL Magazine | Jul 7, 2014 | Marine, News & Notes
Thane Militz, a Ph.D. candidate with Australia’s James Cook University, is currently getting his feet (and everything else) wet in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Proceeded by the NGO-backed SEASMART Program (which should be very familiar to long-time CORAL Magazine...
by CORAL Magazine | Jun 30, 2014 | Marine, New Products
via Press Release from Reef Eden, 6/30/2014 The art of keeping an animal successfully in captivity, rests not only in understanding the animal’s nature, but also the nature of the habitat it occupies. Seahorses and their close relatives the Pipefish which frequently...
by Ronald L. Shimek, PhD | Jun 29, 2014 | CORAL - Ronald L. Shimek, PhD, Marine
In a very nice, easily understood, short paper , available online here, free of charge, L.Dougherty and collaborators examined the “disco flashing” seen in the edges of the mantle of the bivalve Ctenoides ales [commonly known as the “Electric Flame...
by Matt Pedersen | Jun 24, 2014 | CORAL - Matt Pedersen, CORAL Excerpt, Marine
This is an expanded online version of the Reef News article first published in the print and digital editions of the July/August 2014 issue of CORAL Magazine. I would like to call this news shocking, but truthfully it was anticipated and expected among the marine fish...
by Ronald L. Shimek, PhD | Jun 20, 2014 | CORAL - Ronald L. Shimek, PhD, Marine
Recent research has shown that Ctenophores have a unique genome and nervous system structure, not related to those seen in any other animals. Once again one of my favorite weird animal groups has risen to the surface in the boiling, bubbling, babbling, cauldron of...
