Microscopic Mayhem When Corals Are Attacked

Microscopic Mayhem When Corals Are Attacked

A juvenile Crown-of-Thorns Starfish with ultimately fatal damage to the arms and central disk after being repelled by the stinging weaponry of an Acropora coral. Credit: Dione Deaker, University of Sydney. Coral can fight back against attacking juvenile...
RIP Premnas: 1816-2021

RIP Premnas: 1816-2021

Never Forget: Premnas, 1816-2021. Graphic © Matt Pedersen “No longer shall we know our Maroon Clownfish as Premnas biaculeatus; the species is now, at least for the moment, re-christened Amphiprion biaculeatus….” After 205 years, a Maroon Clownfish...