by Ronald L. Shimek, PhD | Mar 9, 2013 | CORAL - Ronald L. Shimek, PhD, Marine
One of the more unlikely places to find a nice image of one of my favorite types of invertebrates is the Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD). Normally, these images are of beautiful or interesting astronomical objects or spacecraft or terrestrial images somehow...
by CORAL Magazine | Mar 7, 2013 | CORAL Excerpt, Marine
CLOWNFISH SUPPLEMENT ANEMONE OXYGEN BY FANNING AT NIGHT The symbiotic relationship between anemonefishes and their host sea anemones has long been studied, but now researchers have found an apparent new benefit to the invertebrate partner. Fending off peckish anemone...
by Anne Linton | Mar 1, 2013 | CORAL Tables of Contents, Marine
ZOANTHIDS VOLUME 10, NUMBER 2 4 Letter From Europe by Daniel Knop 7 Editor’s Page by James M. Lawrence 8 Letters 12 Reef News 24 Rarities: Pseudocoris Wrasses by Scott W. Michael FEATURE ARTICLES 32 A Zeal For Zoanthids by Daniel Knop 36 Things...
by Ronald L. Shimek, PhD | Feb 27, 2013 | CORAL - Ronald L. Shimek, PhD, Marine
This is my introduction to the readers of the Reef2Rainforest site, where I will, in a manner reminiscent of an old and ancient city, be babbling on about a non-existent group of animals. Just as one can’t prove a negative proposition, such as “There are...
by CORAL Magazine | Feb 27, 2013 | Marine
One of the most stunning underwater videos we have seen recently, from Wakatobi, Sulawesi, Indonesia. A must-see for reef aquarists and divers alike. Credit: Wakatobi Dive...
by CORAL Magazine | Feb 27, 2013 | Marine, News & Notes
Scientists have long puzzled over a commonly seen Idaho fossil of shark-like teeth arranged in a circle. Completely unlike anything seen in living fishes and has long posed a conundrum for science. Now a team at the Idaho Museum of Natural History has theorized how...