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Two New Deep Ocean Coral-Dwelling Bacteria Species With Incredibly Tiny Genomes Discovered
Now, two more join their ranks as researchers discover a pair of new bacteria species nestled in the tissue of deep-sea ...
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Deep-sea discovery: Ancient coral may have been the first glow-in-the-dark creatures, study finds
Soft coral species in the deep ... that light up are found in the depths of the ocean. In a new study, scientists report that deep-sea corals that lived 540 million years ago may have been the ...
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The first glow-in-the-dark animals may have been ancient corals deep in the ocean
But most animals that light up are found in the depths of the ocean. In a new study ... use light as a beacon to find mates. Many deep-sea soft coral species light up briefly when bumped ...
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See maps of the largest-ever deep-sea coral reef that was discovered in an area once thought mostly uninhabited
But more than a decade of mapping and exploration "revealed one of the largest deep-sea coral reef habitats found to date anywhere in the world," NOAA Ocean Exploration operations chief Kasey ...
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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 ... in the depths of the ocean and they might have been ...