In late November, the farmers will plant the foster oysters on two conservation reef sites ... seahorse that blended in with a clump of brown macro-algae. The most abundant catches were comb ...

SEE: Before and after images/video of this Pacific island, destroyed and restored to be a breeding ground for sea turtles and ...

The two animals look very similar indeed, though vicuñas have a distinctive color pattern, with white undersides and a brown saddle ... while on a reef dive (just don’t get too close). If not, you can ...

I had seen a lot of tanks on various forums and thought 95% of them looked unsightly, with randomly-placed rocks and seemingly no real attempt at aquascaping — not to mention lots of ugly brown corals ...

Michiko Smith, Maui artist They’re keeping costs down with low-tech tools, including Igloo ice chests from Walmart that serve as makeshift coral tanks ... more reef-smothering algae and ...

It’s a reef aquarium that maintains very low levels of nutrients ... SPS corals gain energy from zooxanthellae, their symbiotic algae that is generally gold/brown and can be seen through the coral’s ...

Complex multicellularity evolved independently in various eukaryotic lineages, including animals, plants, fungi, and algae. This evolutionary leap of going from one to many requires organisms to ...

Independently evolved brown algae develop this way, too. Diethard Tautz is at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, 24306 Plön, Germany, and at the Stellenbosch Institute for ...

By looking at the tiniest virus-infected microbes in the ocean, researchers are gaining new insights about the marine food ...

Morphologically simpler brown algae like Ectocarpus and the gametophytes of Laminaria digitata and Saccorhiza polyschides do not exhibit this hourglass-shaped gene expression pattern.

Rust-colored water is caused by algae which is also responsible for the blue glow known as bioluminescence -- but there is a ...