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Gender-Bending Fish: Why “Finding Nemo” Really Should Have Been A Mother-Son Story

by × on January 15, 2013 at 3:41 pm × 0 comments

I’m a child at heart. I listen to One Direction and wake up for Saturday morning cartoons. Now that I’ve taken zoology classes, I’ve taken it a step further and made the connection between my childhood animal cartoons and reality. What else am I going to do with my extensive [...]

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Scientists Find Algae-Clearing Fish Foster Coral Growth

by × on November 18, 2011 at 11:04 am × 1 comment

Researchers at UCSB’s Marine Science Institute recently discovered a link between the behavior of algae-eating fish and the resiliency of coral reefs. At the Moorea Coral Reef in French Polynesia, one of 26 sites of the multi-university Long Term Ecological Research Network funded by the National Science Foundation, the team [...]