Deep Coral Grove Video
Category: Coral
Bubblegum trees and red tree coral from Georges Bank Nova Scotia....
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Category: Coral
Bubblegum trees and red tree coral from Georges Bank Nova Scotia....
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Category: Instant Anthozoa
A yellow stony coral courtesy "Mountains in the Sea" scientific party, NOAA, and the Institute for Exploration via Oceanus...
Posted by CR McClain at 12:24 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Adaptations
Sometimes we just need a little help to get by in life. A nudge, some encouragement or a simple pat on the back will suffice. Being stuck to a rock is not a real good way to avoid predators, unless...
Posted by Kevin Zelnio at 9:33 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: TGIF: Pictures & Movies
Here's a wonderful clip of Nancy Knowlton discussing her coral research in the tropics. Nancy is one of the world's premier marine biologist with an accomplished scientific career. Courtesy of Scripps Oceanography, UC San Diego, "Endangered Oceans" Explorations DVD, Volume...
Posted by CR McClain at 5:09 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: New Research
Figure 2 from Etnoyer and Warrenchuk (2007). Callogorgia americana delta colonies with catshark egg cases attached. Depth 533 m. ROV suction hose on the left is 15.25 cm (6 in) in diameter. I am excited that our first post on...
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Category: Instant Anthozoa
This video shows why it can feel like Christmas when you're cruising the seafloor in a submarine and you stumble upon a deep-sea coral community. The "marine snow" is falling, the bamboo corals light up like Christmas trees, the anemones, well, they kind of remind me of poinsettias.
Posted by Peter Etnoyer at 9:30 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Instant Anthozoa
An enormous sea anemone from 2500m depth on the East Pacific Rise was reported in the journal Marine Biology. The monstrous actiniarian Boloceroides daphneae had a column diameter of 1m, a tentacle crown of 2m diameter, and tentacles trailing an estimated 3m and more.
Posted by Peter Etnoyer at 7:46 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Instant Anthozoa
We have a new state in this country! Welcome number 53. It's called "The State of Deep Coral Ecosystems of the United States" Of course, it's not a state, really, in the Nunavut sense of the word. This is a...
Posted by Peter Etnoyer at 2:21 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Instant Anthozoa
There is so much happening in the field of deep-sea coral research right now that there is no way to cover everything in detail without cheating you out of some of the excitement, so I'll list it all in a...
Posted by Peter Etnoyer at 9:10 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks