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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 ]]> Front Page News Frankie http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/front-page-news/52515-sponges-recycle-carbon-give-life-coral-reefs.html http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/front-page-news/52478-predatory-coral-eats-jellyfish.html Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:36:50 GMT *Thanks seafansar for supporting the front page news :)* Image: http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc121/Frankielucci/Front%20page%20news/_46697309_fungiaeatingaureliabymrom.jpg *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 surprise*The 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. *For the complete article please follow this link:* BBC - Earth News - Predatory coral eats jellyfish (http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8350000/8350972.stm) 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 ]]> Front Page News Frankie http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/front-page-news/52478-predatory-coral-eats-jellyfish.html http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/front-page-news/52357-person-drives-into-tia-fish-tank.html Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:11:25 GMT Article provided by cantagious. Thanks :thumbup:

TAMPA - Yamile Campuzano-Martine went to an airport and wound up in an aquarium.
With two children in the vehicle – including an unrestrained 6-year-old in her lap – Campuzano-Martine lost control of her 1994 Ford Ranger and crashed into a fish exhibit at Tampa International Airport, police said.
The collision at TIA's blue arrival area Monday night demolished a 1,500-gallon tank worth $50,000 to $100,000. It also killed most of the 30 to 40 saltwater fish; airport employees gathered some of the water and surviving fish in a bucket.
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With child in lap, woman drives into TIA fish tank ]]> Front Page News Frankie http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/front-page-news/52357-person-drives-into-tia-fish-tank.html http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/front-page-news/52054-ghostly-dance-sea-dragon.html Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:11:42 GMT A ghostly tale provided from Woodstock for your Halloween holiday! Thanks Doni!

One of the most elegant courtship rituals in the animal kingdom has been captured on film by a BBC crew.
The dance of the weedy sea dragon takes place every year in the shallow seas off the coast of Australia.
During the ghostly dance, two beautifully odd-looking fish mirror each other's every movement.
At the end of the ritual, the male fish is the one to get pregnant, giving birth two months later, a process the BBC crew filmed for the first time.
The dance of the weedy sea dragon is captured for the BBC natural history series Life.
Weedy sea dragons are a type of fish related to seahorses and pipefish.
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BBC - Earth News - Ghostly 'dance of a sea dragon' ]]> Front Page News Frankie http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/front-page-news/52054-ghostly-dance-sea-dragon.html http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/front-page-news/52048-plan-freeze-threatened-coral.html Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:39:44 GMT Thank you to Miltonic & tektite for both sending this story to post on the front page news :)

An international meeting on climate change in Copenhagen has heard the prospects of saving the world's coral reefs now appear so bleak there are plans to freeze samples to preserve them for the future. Describing it as a last-ditch attempt, a team of scientists from the UK is collecting reef samples that will be frozen and cultivated in what they are describing as an ark.
The scientists say if humans do not do something soon to reduce the damage, the reefs will be reduced to rubble by the middle of the century.
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Plan to freeze threatened coral - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) ]]> Front Page News Frankie http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/front-page-news/52048-plan-freeze-threatened-coral.html http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/front-page-news/51464-rare-white-killer-whale-spotted-alaskan-waters.html Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:47:18 GMT Thanks Jeremy :thumbup: Image: http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc121/Frankielucci/080318203016-large.jpg ScienceDaily (Mar. 19, 2008) — Scientists aboard the NOAA research vessel Oscar Dyson in the North Pacific have sighted a creature of great rarity and even myth: a white whale. The white killer whale was spotted with its pod about two miles off Kanaga Volcano, part of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, on February 23. At the time, Kodiak-based Oscar Dyson was on a research expedition for NOAA’s Alaska Fisheries Science Center, assessing pollock fish stocks near Steller sea lion haulout sites. For the complete article please follow this link: Rare White Killer Whale Spotted In Alaskan Waters (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080318203016.htm) Thanks Jeremy :thumbup:

ScienceDaily (Mar. 19, 2008) — Scientists aboard the NOAA research vessel Oscar Dyson in the North Pacific have sighted a creature of great rarity and even myth: a white whale.
The white killer whale was spotted with its pod about two miles off Kanaga Volcano, part of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, on February 23. At the time, Kodiak-based Oscar Dyson was on a research expedition for NOAA’s Alaska Fisheries Science Center, assessing pollock fish stocks near Steller sea lion haulout sites.
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