A Blueprint for Saving Reefs

Climate Change Not So Dangerous Against “Super Reefs”   Conservation researchers have discovered that some coral reefs off East Africa are unusually resistant to climate change due to improved management of fisheries. According to the web journal Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, "super reefs" exist in a triangle from Northern Madagascar to Mozambique to Kenya, and should be a high priority for further...

The Trouble with the Sea Otter’s Menu

Otters Need Food Inspectors? Because of their dietary habits, sea otters living along the central California coast face the menace of disease-causing parasites (www.usgs.gov).   Sea otters that...

Mystery of an Inconspicuous Sea Creature

Spoiler Alert: The Placozoan is Not the Most Ancient Animal   Resembling a smudge more than an animal, a mysterious life form known as a placozoan has now joined other obscure and primitive...