Coral Reef Fact: Just like traffic signals, Stoplight Parrotfish (Sparisoma viride) undergo a color change during their life-cycles: they change from red to green. Donate to Reef Relief today & help protect our astounding marine environment go to reefrelief.org/act/donate
Coral Reef Fact: The Portuguese Man o’ War (Physalia physalis) is a siphonophore, which differ from jellyfish in that they are not actually a single creature, but a colonial organism made up of many highly-specialized individuals called zooids. The zooids are attached to each other and are incapable of independent survival. Learn more Donate to […]
Coral Reef Fact: Longjaw squirrelfish (Neoniphon marianus) can produce a chattering noise by grinding their teeth in the throat and stretching muscles against their long gas bladder. Donate to Reef Relief today and help protect our marine environment.
ISLA MUJERES, MEXICO – U.S. and Mexican scientists believe they are close to solving one of the shark world’s great mysteries. They want to know why whale sharks, the largest shark species, gather each year by the hundreds in the teal-blue waters off this Yucatan Peninsula barrier island. Read the full article Special to The […]
By Daily Mail Reporter 8th March 2011 They are known as the ocean’s gentle giants, but an alarming rise in manta and mobula ray hunting could threaten the very existence of the species. From India to Ecuador, manta and mobula fishing has become big business for fisheries who are selling their gills to be used […]
March 6, 2011: Detroit Free Press Baby dolphins, some barely 3 feet in length, are washing up along the Mississippi and Alabama coastlines at 10 times the normal rate of stillborn and infant deaths, researchers say. Seventeen young dolphins, either aborted or dead soon after birth, have been collected along the shorelines in recent weeks, […]
Coral Reef Fact: Caribbean spiny lobsters (Panulirus argus) migrate along shore and offshore seasonally; traveling in single-file lines to deeper water in order to evade the stresses of the cold and turbid waters. Lobster Migration scene – From the Trials of Life Donate to Reef Relief today and help protect our marine environment.
Coral Reefs support the activities of an estimated 500 million people globally.Yet, in the Caribbean and Florida Keys more than 75% of the reefs are considered threatened, with more than 30% in the high and very high threat categories. Read the new Reefs at Risk Revisited Report here Coral reefs around the world are experiencing […]
Coral Reef Fact: Moray Eels secrete a protective mucus over their smooth, scaleless skin which in some species contains a toxin. Learn more Donate to Reef Relief today and help protect our marine environment.
Coral Reef Fact: The Southern Stargazer (Astroscopus y-graecum) is designed so that its’ eyes, nostrils, most of the mouth are above the sand when they bury themselves to ambush prey. They are, also, capable of protruding their eyes for a short distance above the sand. Learn more Donate to Reef Relief today and help protect […]