The deep sea is full of fascinating- albeit terrifying- creatures, that look more like they jumped out of the pages of a ...

Instead, the seafloor is covered with thick carpets of feather hydroids (colonial animals related to corals) and with thousands of scallops. The scallops are four inches across but may be 40 years ...

"Coral skeletons bathed in algal slime," he says. Cardinalfish zip by a hawksbill turtle as it rests among feathery invertebrates called hydroids. Illegally harvested for their shells, hawksbills ...

The By-the-Wind Sailors are also known as colonial hydroids, similar to Portuguese Man O'War, feeding on algae and ...

The museum’s large collection of amphibians and reptiles is one the longest maintained collections in the world, originating in the late eighteenth century. The cnidaria collections include corals, ...

"Hydroids are colonial animals that live in little box-like high rises together," the Essex University marine biologist told BBC News. "They are the fine, slightly stingy, fur that you find covers ...

Coral reefs are one of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet. What are the abiotic and biotic interactions that structure this diverse ecosystem? Corals are members of the phylum Cnidaria, a ...

These shrimp sometimes act as cleaners for fish, removing parasites. The horseshoe crab’s carapace is also playing host to minute, hair-like polyps of hydroids, which feed on plankton or particles in ...

For the expedition report, Dall wrote a history of the Europeans in Alaska, as well as the full volume, Land and Fresh Water Mollusks and Hydroids. In the years after the Harriman Expedition ...

The first things to get marked down in our calendars at home are special tides: well-timed spring highs for my husband, so ...

In particular, we’d like to conduct a marine biological survey. On and around the wreck we saw a range of crinoids, hydroids and cnidarians, as well as zoo plankton flicking by and even a ...

The Courier Express, in collaboration with Lola M. Smith, MS, lecturer in biology at Penn State DuBois, is republishing a ...