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Unlikely wild animals are being smuggled into U.S. ports: Corals

Kim Stone, director of fish and invertebrates at the Georgia Aquarium, holds a colony of confiscated marine corals in a back room of the aquarium, in Atlanta, May 23, 2024. You might imagine that when ...
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From glowing corals to vomiting shrimp, animals have used bioluminescence to communicate for millions of years – here’s what scientists still don’t know about it

The bamboo coral _Isidella_ displaying bioluminescence in the Caribbean in 2009. Sönke Johnsen, CC BY-ND Our research focuses on octocorals – soft-bodied corals such as sea fans that have treelike ...
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The first glow-in-the-dark animals may have been ancient corals deep in the ocean

This image provided by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in April 2024 shows bioluminescence in the sea whip coral Funiculina sp. observed under red light in a laboratory. Most animals that ...
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The first glow-in-the-dark animals may have been ancient corals deep in the ocean

WASHINGTON (AP) — Many animals can glow in the dark. Fireflies famously blink on summer evenings. But most animals that light up are found in the depths of the ocean. In a new study, scientists report ...