Summer is just about over, but we can all cling to those warm, tropical feelings for at least one more week as we strap on our scuba gear and take a dive into the wild world of coral reefs! Scuba!
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[Trivia Question]
Coral average sperm per bubble
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4950549/
[Fact Off]
Deep-sea coral help zooxanthellae photosynthesize
https://www.scuba.com/blog/explore-the-blue/faascinating-phenomenon-coral-fluorescence/
https://elifesciences.org/articles/73521
https://www.science.org/content/article/coral-reefs-scatter-light-forests
https://www.science.org/content/article/scientists-measure-glow-inside-coral-first-time
Snapping shrimp colonies with queens
https://decapoda.nhm.org/pdfs/25410/25410.pdf
https://phys.org/news/2018-03-tradeoffs-weaponry-fecundity-snapping-shrimp.html
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0193305
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1549235
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10937227/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Artificial reef pros and cons
https://www.doi.gov/blog/artificial-reefs-create-homes-sea-life
https://floridakeys.noaa.gov/artificialreefs/effects.html
https://daily.jstor.org/do-artificial-reefs-work/
https://hakaimagazine.com/news/for-artificial-coral-reefs-time-is-not-enough/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025326X2100610X
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2020.00282/full
[Butt One More Thing]
Gastrovascular pores aka secret coral buttholes
https://hmr.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1007/BF02367177.pdf