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Oct 15, 2008 - 2:12 AM - by Frankie | Do you have news that you would like to share on Reef Sanctuary?
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0 Replies | 926 Views | | Sponges Recycle Carbon to Give Life to Coral Reefs | |
Nov 17, 2009 - 8:42 AM - by Frankie | Thank you tektite for supporting the Front Page News 
 By Jennifer Viegas
It's hard to think of a sponge as an animal, especially if you have a dried up non-synthetic one in your bathtub. Living sponges don't have circulatory, digestive or nervous systems, and they can often regenerate themselves from small fragments. But sponges are indeed in the kingdom Animalia and, as this report from The Company of Biologists explains, they are critical to the survival of coral reefs.
Coral reefs support some of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet, yet they thrive in a marine desert. So how do reefs sustain their thriving populations?
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Sponges Recycle Carbon to Give Life to Coral Reefs : Discovery News | |
2 Replies | 88 Views | | Predatory coral eats jellyfish | |
Nov 15, 2009 - 4:36 PM - by Frankie | Thanks seafansar for supporting the front page news
A coral is recorded eating a jellyfish for the first time, in intriguing photographs taken by scientists.
Coral usually feed on tiny plankton as well as products provided by photosynthetic algae.
Yet the photos reveal a stationary mushroom coral sucking in a large moon jellyfish.
Researchers believe the ability to feed on a variety of food sources like jellyfish may give the coral an advantage in a changing world.
The researchers publish their findings in the journal Coral Reefs.
Coral surpriseThe pictures were taken on a dive by Mr Omri Bronstein from Tel Aviv University in Israel and Mr Gal Dishon from Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel in March 2009 during a survey on reefs near the Israeli city of Eilat in the Red Sea.
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BBC - Earth News - Predatory coral eats jellyfish | |
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