marine biology

CNN is among the news outlets covering a hopeful story (as the rain forests burn), that the Florida Aquarium in Tampa has found a way to get coral to reproduce – and potentially repopulate… Read the rest “New hope for coral reefs is sprouting at Florida Aquarium”

CNN was among the news outlets celebrating the discovery of a small, glow-in-the-dark shark species:

The 5 1/2-inch American Pocket Shark is the first of its kind to be discovered in the

Science magazine demonstrates that sharks can and will eat literally anything, up to and including songbirds that live miles inland … but migrate over the Gulf of Mexico:

To find

Hakai Magazine looks at the few mighty salmon who survive the rigors of the spawning run year after year. Where most fish die after (or during) their first trip, what turns some tough salmon… Read the rest “A “kelt” is a salmon that survives spawning. Again and again.”

Popular Science shows what it takes to get data sometimes – when the enormous marine reptile you affixed your tracking equipment to carries on migrating right into a major hurricane… Read the rest “Tracking a leatherback turtle through Hurricane Florence”

The Guardian unveils the bonnethead as the first confirmed omnivorous shark species:

Scientists at the University of California in Irvine, and Florida International University in Miami,

Nature has the answer, as supplied by a team of British and Australian researchers. Even though rats can’t live underwater, they can do fine on an island. And, thanks to their appetite… Read the rest “How rats can kill a coral reef.”

Science Daily takes us to the Gulf of Mexico, where scientists have finished the first-ever study of a nursery for baby manta rays:

Located in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Texas at NOAA’s

Barbados is smothering under a blanket of seaweed. That’s the word from Hakai Magazine, which is studying a sudden, lethal growth in sargassum that seems to be choking off the islands… Read the rest “A sea of sargasso swamps the Eastern Caribbean”