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Ferocious Fish Found Off Miami Coast

Posted on June 24th by Ryan Gripp.
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. ...
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Man: planning to kill wife with Puffer fish Toxin

Posted on June 19th by Ryan Gripp. 2
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 ...
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2,000 coral colonies reattached by Honolulu

Posted on May 18th by Ryan Gripp.
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 ...
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Coral Transplant being attempted in Japan

Posted on April 21st by Ryan Gripp.
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 ...

Rare video footage of deepwater marine life on Davidson Seamount

Posted on March 4th by Jake Adams.
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 ...
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Oldest Animal Fossils Discovered in an oil field?

Posted on February 4th by Ryan Gripp.
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 ...
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Poor Nemo won’t be able to find his home if someone doesnt add buffer to the oceans

Posted on February 2nd by Jake Adams.
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 ...
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Some populations of Caribbean staghorn are not as wimpy as previously thought

Posted on January 27th by Jake Adams.
A recent paper published in the journal of the Public Library of Science reports on a study which used genetic tools to look for disease resistance in the ...
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New details emerge about the formation of deep sea coral reefs

Posted on November 5th by Jake Adams.
The relatively recent discovery of deep sea coral reefs a few years ago has stimulated a rush of interest and research in recent years. The big question everyone wants to ...