Marine engineers: Five species that shape underwater ecosystems
Among the myriad creatures that populate our ocean, some stand out as having an outsized impact on the marine ...
BBC6 年
10 amazing facts about coral reefs (and one terrible truth)
In the reef-building "hard corals", the polyps sit in a carbonate coral skeleton ... on coral reefs for at least one stage of its life cycle – so they populate the oceans far beyond the ...
Natural History Museum%2c London1 年
Immortal jellyfish: the secret to cheating death
It will then start to mature and grow. Larvae mature into polyps, which will then bud off and mature into young jellyfish.' An adult jellyfish is known as a medusa. Jellyfish belong to a group called ...
Center for Biological Diversity6 年
NATURAL HISTORY
LIFE CYCLE: Polyps and the reefs they form can live for hundreds of years. FEEDING: Acroporids host symbiotic algae called zooxanthellae. While corals get most of their nutrients from the byproducts ...
Sinar Daily on MSN5 个月
Malaysia's coral under threat? What you need to know about bleaching
Chelliah said the life cycle of corals involves several crucial stages ... they undergo settlement and polyp formation, ...