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“#The state of coral reefs in the Solomon Islands” Scientists on the Global Reef Expedition research mission to the Solomon Islands conducted over 1,000 standardized surveys of coral reefs and reef fish and created maps for over 3,000 square kilometers of coastal marine habitats in the Solomon Islands. Credit: Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation/Ken…
“#Bleaching affects aquarium corals, too” The Australian saucer coral (Homophyllia australis), lives just off the coast of Mackay. With the worldwide demand for Australian aquarium corals increasing, a single aquarium specimen of Homophyllia australis fetched more than $8,000 AUD in Japan in 2017. However, bleaching events kill this particular species. Credit: Ciemon Caballes. A new…
“#Soft coral garden discovered in Greenland’s deep sea” Image from benthic sled. High density of anemones. Credit: ZSL/GINR A deep-sea soft coral garden habitat has been discovered in Greenlandic waters by scientists from UCL, ZSL and Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, using an innovative and low-cost deep-sea video camera built and deployed by the team….
“#Pantera leo’s family tree takes shape” Historically the maximum prevalence of lion caves. (P. leo spelaea), the American lion (P. leo atrox) and todays lions P. leo leo. Credit: Mitogenomics of the Extinct Cave Lion. http://doi.org/10.5334/oq.24 As the “king of beasts,” majestic lions have been used as a symbol of courage, nobility and strength by…
“#No leg to stand on for Australia’s flamingos” Flinders University vertebrate paleontologist Associate Professor Trevor Worthy with a fragment of a fossilized drumstick from another large extinct Australian bird, a stork (Ciconia nana), as well as an African flamingo leg bone. Credit: Flinders University The sweeping pink salt lakes across Australia’s interior are all that…
“#Fancy Aussie bees flew in from Asia” Homalictus tatei – James Dorey 18JDEC356ii Homalictus female sp. 112p MPE 5x -James Dorey Credit: James Dorey, Flinders University Ancestors of a distinctive pollinating bee found across Australia probably originated in tropical Asian countries, islands in the south-west Pacific or greater Oceania region, ecology researchers claim. Describing the…
“#Climate extremes will cause forest changes” Premature leaf senescence of a beech tree during the 2018 event, followed by lacking leaf flushing and canopy dieback in the following year. Credit: Ansgar Kahmen / Universität Basel No year has been as hot and dry as 2018 since climate records began. Central European forests showed severe signs…
“#Dramatic past declines of flounder verified and explained” European (left) and Baltic flounder are almost indistinguishable by appearance but they have different spawning behaviours and adaptations. Photo: Mats Westerbom (left), Alf Norkko (right). Credit: University of Helsinki Marine biologist Henri Jokinen investigated how and why flounder populations have decreased in Finnish waters over the past…
“#FISHTREAT: A novel, sustainable medicinal dosing system for fish farms” One of the main challenges for salmonid aquaculture is the threat of parasitic infestations from sea lice such as Lepeophtheirus salmonis. Credit: Wikimedia One of the main challenges for salmonid aquaculture is the threat of parasitic infestations from sea lice such as Lepeophtheirus salmonis. These…
“#Decades‑old teeth are teaching researchers about the life cycles of bottlenose whales” Credit: Dalhousie University Northern bottlenose whales live in deep waters off the coast of Nova Scotia and southern Newfoundland. An endangered species, they were targets of a century of commercial whaling across the North Atlantic. Little has been known about how long a…