As if Australia isn’t one of the luckiest continents with the largest reef in the world, a new reef has been discovered in the far south at Wilson’s Promontory Marine National park . This reef is a deep one, 300 feet…
Battle to save Miami coral from destruction
Colin Foord from Coral Morphologic is battling time, strong currents and eels in the effort to save corals in Miami’s harbor from being blasted to smithereens by the Army Corp of Engineering during the $220 million Deep Dredge project to…
New Caledonia enlists Australia to aid in reef protection
We’ve all heard of the Great Barrier Reef but did you know New Caledonia is home to the second largest reef in the world? The French Pacific territory recently made a call to Australia in hopes of tapping into the…
Ferocious Fish Found Off Miami Coast
The lionfish are continuing their slow spread across the ocean as they have been recently found in Miami. Specifically one of them has been found in Biscayne National Park. “The fish was reported by a sport diver last week lurking…
Man: planning to kill wife with Puffer fish Toxin
How the idea of this got into this guys head we don’t know. But apparently a man in Chicago was posing as a doctor to buy vials of deadly puffer fish toxin. What was he going to do with this…
2,000 coral colonies reattached by Honolulu
Back in February 5 of this year a 9,600 ton cruiser name the USS Port Royal damaged coral colonies when it ran aground. It was freed four days later but not after destroying and displacing coral colonies which some were…
Coral Transplant being attempted in Japan
In the southern of the Okinawa chain of islands, divers are hard at work below the waves of the Sekisei Lagoon located in Japan. They have compressed air drills and are desperately trying to bring new life to one of…
Rare video footage of deepwater marine life on Davidson Seamount
The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute has been churning out a lot of eye popping videos lately. Hot on the heels of the unbelievable barreleye fish, this video footage from the Davidson Seamount includes many rarely seen deep water corals,…
Oldest Animal Fossils Discovered in an oil field?
There is an oil field in the Arabian Peninsula that point known origins of higher life to more than 635 million years ago. Gordon Love of the University of California said: “It is, definitively, the earliest evidence for animals.” Interestingly…
Poor Nemo won’t be able to find his home if someone doesnt add buffer to the oceans
We’re not sure what’s up with ocean and reef research lately but there seems to be quite a plethora of gloomy ecology papers being published, each decrying a new way that the ocean is down the creek withouth a paddle.…
