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The scientists, however, are concerned about the fate of this mega coral due to oceans getting more acidic under climate change. Corals use calcium carbonate in the ocean water to create their ...
Crown of light soft corals look like small flower gardens, photos show. They are colonial animals with a “mat”-like base from which countless stem-like polyps grow, the study said.
Scientists found the spiny animal while aboard a submersible in the South China Sea. ‘Large’ sea creature — with ‘blade-like’ claws — discovered as new species. See it
They were searching for unfamiliar-looking sea creatures. And they found one in the form of a new species with about 170 eyes. ... They took a closer look at the sea animals and realized they’d ...
The Sea Train is the name given to a sound recorded on March 5, 1997, on the Equatorial Pacific Ocean autonomous hydrophone array. The sound rises to a quasi-steady frequency. According to the NOAA, the origin of the sound is most likely generated by a very large iceberg grounded in the Ross Sea, near Cape Adare. [10
Photos shows the gnome sea pen in its natural habitat and after being preserved. In life, it looks almost like a palm frond. In preservation, it looks like a stick covered with sea anemone-like ...
Its body looks almost like a see-through cushion. It has a thick white ring running along its lower edge. Smaller vein-like structures stretch from its prominent central stomach to the outer ring.
Scotoplanes, like other sea cucumbers, host parasitic and commensal organisms. For example, it provides a shelter to juvenile crabs, Neolithodes diomedeae . It is known that such relationship benefits the crabs because they can reduce risks of predation when they are under the shelter.