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Unlikely wild animals are being smuggled into U.S. ports: Corals

Kim Stone, director of fish and invertebrates at the Georgia Aquarium, holds a colony of confiscated marine corals in a back room of the aquarium, in Atlanta, May 23, 2024. You might imagine that when ...
Yahoo

From glowing corals to vomiting shrimp, animals have used bioluminescence to communicate for millions of years – here’s what scientists still don’t know about it

The bamboo coral _Isidella_ displaying bioluminescence in the Caribbean in 2009. Sönke Johnsen, CC BY-ND Our research focuses on octocorals – soft-bodied corals such as sea fans that have treelike ...
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The first glow-in-the-dark animals may have been ancient corals deep in the ocean

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This image provided by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in April 2024 shows bioluminescence in the sea whip coral ...

Corals sleep like us, but their symbionts never rest

Sleep is essential for much of the animal kingdom. During the night, neuron and tissue repair mechanisms are activated to aid ...
Earth.com

Corals sleep at night, even without a brain

Corals may look still, but they follow a daily sleep cycle. New research shows why corals rest at night while their microbes ...