Using its polyp tentacles, encrusting gorgonians will catch and eat smaller marine organisms that drift by. Coral also have a special algae—called zooxanthellae– in their tissues that photosynthesize ...
It typically measures no more than 0.24 inches (6 millimeters), and it burrows inside branching gorgonian corals at a density of up to 15 worms per cubic centimeter. But the creature hasn’t been ...
Years ago, as a student at the University of the Ryukyus in in Okinawa, Japan, Ai Takahata was researching the color patterns of a seahorse about the size of a shelled peanut. The pygmy seahorse ...
It is a fantasy world of gorgonian corals, turtles and colorful fish. Whichever spot you choose, you are bound to be impressed; recent visitors loved the crystal clear waters and abundance of ...