Interesting coral spawn a single day of the year
Most hard corals will release gametes (eggs and sperm) on a single night of the year
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Most hard corals will release gametes (eggs and sperm) on a single night of the year
Biological experts in the North Carolina area are having difficulty identifying the skeleton of a mysterious, thorny creature, washed up on the beach.
A seabed predator known as deep sea arowana has developed a unique adaptation to compensate for its relatively small size.
The bubble circle, which actually contained the air inside the whirlpool, touched the jellyfish and made the animal spin.
Lately, it feels like more than half of the internet community in Vietnam and China has sunk a lovely creature. That is the pepper.
More than 6,000 rare and precious specimens such as biological bones and sedimentary rocks were first announced after marine exploration and research.
As the ocean warms, the supply of food is scarce, the North Atlantic whale is facing the risk of rapid decline in the number of individuals and even extinction.
The frame of sharks is made up of cartilage, not bones, allowing them to move flexibly under water.
The smallest vertebrate aquatic species - cryptobenthic fish - though less than 2cm long but plays the most important role in the coral region's ecosystem.
20,000 years ago, life on Earth was much cooler. That was the end of the Ice Age of 100,000 years.
According to a new survey published in the journal Archives of Oral Biology, 29 killer whales in captivity in the US and Spain have dental problems.
Not all sharks are frantic to bite their prey in sight, foxes have a way of hunting like no other but are extremely charming.
The shark species through Hollywood horror movies are often misunderstood as a bloodthirsty, warlike species and are always trying to feed humans.
Rest assured, this is not something that is harmful to sharks, but it reveals quite a few mysteries about the creature that leads the ocean food chain.
When going to the beach, have you ever looked away to the ocean and wondered: