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 ...

They’re not the most parasite-prone fish, thanks to their thick mucous coat which helps trap ... This diminutive fish requires copious amounts of filamentous algae, which is lacking in many reef ...

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 ...

So what makes a successful modern reef: The ‘make it as tall as you can’ tank has ... starving nuisance algae and making it unavailable, even for use by photosynthetic, symbiotic algae inside coral ...

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 ...

A study has found concerning new evidence of long-term declines in coral reef fish around highly visited inshore islands of ...

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 ...

Researchers in a Lab Near Lake Erie Study How Toxic Algae Can Damage Health TOLEDO ... tinting the water green, producing a thick sludge when severe and potentially turning toxic to humans ...