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Overfishing on coral reefs isn't simply caused by too many people. Rather, the researchers found that the biomass of fish found on coral reefs in the western Indian Ocean depended mostly on the complexity of the reefs themselves and the socioeconomic status of the people living on the shores. View the full article

A solution is not a cure-all. View the full article

Reef Central has 90 people working hard to keep the site enjoyable and educational. Here's a peek at their tanks. View the full article

John describes his 380-gallon reef aquarium. View the full article

A brief description and profile of the Unicorn Tang. View the full article

An ingenious way to enlarge the overflow teeth, and maintain that store-bought look. View the full article

This month we are showcasing the Raleigh Aquarium Society (RAS). View the full article

Check out the latest upcoming events of interest to marine aquarists. View the full article

Top Ten Aquarium Related Nightmares That You've Had... View the full article

Wet Skimmate Water Changes? View the full article

Iron dust, the gold of the oceans and rarest nutrient for most marine life, can be washed down by rivers or blown out to sea or -- a surprising new study finds -- float up uncorroded from the sea floor. View the full article

The genome of a marine bacterium living 2,500 meters below the ocean's surface is providing clues to how life adapts in extreme thermal and chemical gradients, according to an article in PLoS Genetics. View the full article

Scientists have found that a diet rich in fish oils can prevent the accumulation of fat in the aorta, the main artery leaving the heart. The beneficial actions of fish oil that block cholesterol buildup in arteries are even found at high fat intakes. View the full article

A recent study has shown, for the first time, the effect of individual genes on the fitness of a marine species at the ecosystem level. Using his innovative computer simulation model, an engineering professor has found that eliminating photosynthesis genes from viruses that attack important marine photosynthetic bacterial organisms will negatively impact the fitness of these viruses, ultimately killing them. View the full article

Paleontologists can still hear the echo of the death knell that drove the dinosaurs and many other organisms to extinction following an asteroid collision at the end of the Cretaceous Period 65 million years ago. "The evolutionary legacy of the end-Cretaceous extinction is very much with us. In fact, it can be seen in virtually every marine community, every lagoon, every continental shelf in the world," said University of Chicago paleontologist David Jablonski. View the full article

We are all adults and sensible too. No harm done... Personally I have seen the video and its really sickening.... blerrrgghh!!!!!!!

Fast-moving, shell-crushing predators, dominant in most places, cannot operate in the icy waters of Antarctica. That situation is changing. View the full article

A DNA microarray may help scientists learn how to preserve coral, one of the ocean's most important denizens. The technology tracks changes in microbial populations that indicate coral disease. View the full article

Scientists have returned from a month-long deep-sea voyage to a marine reserve near Tasmania, Australia, that not only netted coral-reef samples likely to provide insight into the impact of climate change on the world's oceans, but also brought to light at least three never-before-seen species of sea life. View the full article

Two newly described fossil whales -- a pregnant female and a male of the same species -- reveal how primitive whales gave birth and provide new insights into how whales made the transition from land to sea. View the full article

Scientists have assessed more than 25 years of data on reef ecosystems recovery from climate change-related episodes of coral bleaching. The new study represents the first comprehensive review of long-term global patterns in reef recovery following bleaching events. View the full article

A food science and human nutrition expert has developed a quick technique for testing for the presence of Salmonella. View the full article

Microscopic plants growing in the Sargasso Sea have come up with a completely unexpected way of building their cells. View the full article

All life -- plants, animals, people -- depends on peaceful coexistence with a swarm of microbial life that performs vital services from helping to convert food to energy to protection from disease. View the full article

More than 150 leading marine scientists from 26 countries are calling for immediate action by policy-makers to sharply reduce carbon dioxide emissions so as to avoid widespread and severe damage to marine ecosystems from ocean acidification. View the full article