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Geological game changer: When continents connected

One of the cichlid fish from Guatemala, Thorichthys meeki, collected by LSU Curator of Ichthyology Prosanta Chakrabarty for the study that refuted the date in which the Isthmus of Panama was formed....

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Parental experience may help coral offspring survive climate change

This is an adult coral (Pocillopora damicornis) Photo Credit: Hollie Putnam A new study from scientists at the University of Hawai’i — Mānoa’s (UHM) Hawai’i Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) reveals...

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Octopus shows unique hunting, social and sexual behavior

The larger Pacific striped octopus has a unique hunting style. Photo credit: Roy Caldwell/UC Berkeley Unlike most octopuses, which tackle their prey with all eight arms, a rediscovered tropical octopus...

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Foes can become friends on the coral reef: How seaweed becomes coral’s friend...

Researcher Cody Clements places bottle caps into the rocky sea floor off Votua Reef, on the Coral Coast of the Fiji Islands. The caps are used to anchor small colonies of coral for experimentation to...

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Neon jackfish leaves Yellowknife fisherman stumped

It’s not the Loch Ness monster, but a Yellowknife angler has ignited debate of his own after landing, and then releasing, a fluorescent green pike while fishing in Great Slave Lake. “The whole top of...

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Huge Ancient Greek City found underwater in the Aegean Sea

The Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Education and Religious Affairs has announced that remnants of a massive Bronze Age city have been discovered submerged in the Aegean Sea. The settlement, which dates...

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First In Fish: ‘Fully Warm-Blooded’ Moonfish Prowls The Deep Seas

Over decades of studying the oceans’ fishes, some species have been found to have partial warm-bloodedness. But scientists say the opah, or moonfish, circulates heated blood — and puts it to a...

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Deadly Sponges Snuffing-Out Coral Colonies

Brain coral (Diploria labyrinthiformis) overgrown and smothered by the lavender branching sponge Aplysina cauliformis. Joseph Pawlik, UNCW It sounds like the plot of a B-movie, but researchers have...

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New Colonial Marine Organisms Discovered in Madeira

Favosipora purpurea, one of the new species of bryozoans discovered on the island of Madeira. Credit: Javier Souto et al. The Portuguese island of Madeira is considered a diversity hotspot for...

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Sisters act together: Cichlid sisters swim together in order to reach the goal

Cichlid fish in the Lake Tanganyika. Credit: Stefanie Schwamberger The manner and routes of dispersal vary with the species and the ecological conditions. Many fish form shoals to avoid predation....

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