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A coral reef off Benin that 1960s surveys presumed dead has been found alive and well more than 50 metres down — eight coral types, eight fish species, and possibly a 40-kilometre reef line still waiting to be explored.
A new bubblegum coral named from a Nazca Ridge seamount solves a century-old puzzle: how do corals with no skeleton grow so large? The secret is chitin — the same molecule in crab shells — woven through the colony like stitching in a pole-less tent.
Fresh analysis of NOAA expedition footage is revealing that Alaska’s deep seafloor holds remarkably dense coral and sponge communities. The beautiful part is that the new map is not just about where life lives, but why currents and water masses help these underwater neighborhoods take shape.
The chambered nautilus is more than a beautiful spiral. It is a slow-growing deep-reef animal whose shell works like elegant natural engineering, recording a long life chamber by chamber.
The shimmering interior of a seashell is made of the same mineral as chalk — yet 3,000 times tougher. Discover how oysters engineer mother-of-pearl, and meet Pinctada phuketensis, a pearl oyster species found right on Phuket's Andaman coast.
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