Award-winning underwater photographer Richie Robinson spotted this little common euphausid shrimp Nyctiphanes half emerging from a polyp of the zoanthid at the Poor Knights Islands. This photo ...

Coral reefs are very important due to the several ecosystem services they provide (Dight and Scherl 1997, Moberg and Folke 1999), their high productivity (Connell 1978, Birkeland 1997), their ...

This study examines changes in structural complexity of coral reefs in a tropical-subtropical transition zone and identifies the benthic factors influencing their patterns. Structure-from-motion ...

Nature’s deadliest chemicals often come in beautiful packages. Take, for instance, the batrachotoxin harbored in the vibrant skins of poison dart frogs, or the cardiac glycosides permeating the glossy ...

The Ecological Society of America (ESA) presents a roundup of four research articles recently published across its esteemed journals. Widely recognized for fostering innovation and advancing ...

Will Evans initially brushed off the flu-like symptoms he felt coming on one recent Saturday night. “In this day and age, getting sick is normal, right?” he recalled thinking. “It happens.” ...

Primarily used in the hydrocolloid industry to make gels to be added in ice creams and toothpaste, seaweed — algae that grow on rocks in the sea — is a highly nutritious food rich in iodine. Goa’s ...

You’ll never guess where these magnificent coral reefs are found. “Sea whip corals, each about half a metre high, blanket the rocks. When you first spot them, it looks like colourful hairy boulders.

After their four dogs died the same way, a Grasstree Beach couple may still not have answers as a marine venom expert says the field requires years worth of further research. Dr Michela Mitchell has ...