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A new sustainable jewelry business will celebrate its grand opening at Luna’s Sustainable Fashion Boutique during the first ...
A Dutch environmental organization has successfully bred hundreds of thousands of coral larvae using in vitro fertilization (IVF), a groundbreaking technique that could play a crucial role in ...
Of the 45 stony coral species found in the Caribbean, the IMA reports that SCTLD has infected over 20 of them, including the maze, mountainous and brain corals that are abundant in tourism-focused ...
Ali Rogin (voice-over): If coral reefs die, so could nearly a quarter of all sea life, which feed millions and sustain industries from fishing tourism. But the good news is that corals are ...
Large pieces of brain coral are washing ashore on Texas beaches, likely due to storms or other underwater disturbances. Brain coral, a slow-growing hard coral, forms important reef habitats in the ...
Beachcombers along the Texas coast have been encountering an unusual sight—large chunks of Brain Coral washing ashore. These fascinating coral fragments, named for their distinctive maze-like ...
This invention was inspired when pesky parrot fish recently gobbled up some newly planted brain coral on Florida's Coral Reef off the coast of Miami-Dade County. The coral had been grown in a lab ...
and grooved brain coral (Diploria labyrinthiformis). “At Mote Marine Laboratory, we believe that advancing the science of coral conservation is not only a commitment to protecting marine ...
If you’re swimming across a thriving coral reef, you may mistakenly believe you floated upon a giant underwater human brain. Brain coral is a hard coral, also known as a stony coral or reef builder.
This grooved coral, 12 feet tall and 14 feet wide, resembles a brain and serves as a vital habitat in the Caribbean ecosystem.
“Some of their mouths open up wide enough you can see into their stomachs,”she told the students as she fed a boulder brain coral, named after its meandering cerebral-like ridges. In between ...
They did not disappoint. Over several evenings, more than 75% of the Center's brain coral colonies reproduced, creating nearly a half-million larvae. In the ocean, fertilized larvae float for days ...