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Posts Tagged ‘coral reefs’
Climate Change, Health, Videos & Documentaries, Sep 1st, 2011,
Researchers from Kings College London are studying the symbiotic relationship between coral and algae living in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. They found that in order to survive in strong sunlight, coral produces compounds that act as a natural sunscreen. Scientists hope to use genetic engineering to recreate the compounds in a laboratory back in the UK and eventually develop a sunscreen in pill form. Since the compound is already present in the food chain in the coral reefs – small fish ingest it while feeding off the coral, larger fish eat them and so on – the scientists hope it…
Tags: australia, coral reefs, king's college, london, pill, sunscreen
Science & Technology, Weird Stuff, Wildlife & Flora, May 19th, 2010,
Compared to the rest of the universe, the Earth is rather small in size. However, it’s also big enough that, after centuries of exploration and studies, we are still only aware of a fraction of all the life and activity it contains. New discoveries happen all the time and that includes discovering characteristics of species we’ve known for a long time. A few years ago, Dr. Steve Simpson, of the University of Bristol’s School of Biological Sciences, discovered that baby reef fish use sound to find coral reefs. Well, a team of Dutch researchers at the Carmabi Foundation in Curacao…
Tags: colonies, coral larvae, coral reefs, research, sound, study, survival
