Mastodawn

Blushing Star Coral (Stephanocoenia intersepta) Skeleton

#Coral #SeaLife #ArtWithOpenSource #CCBYSA #Darktable #MarineLife #Anthozoa #Cnidaria #Corals #Animal #Animals #AnimalPhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photo #Photography

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Apr 30, 2024

Glowing #SeaCreatures Have Been Lighting Up the #Oceans for More Than Half a Billion Years https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/glowing-sea-creatures-have-been-lighting-up-the-oceans-for-more-than-half-a-billion-years-180984214/ by Riley Black

#Evolution of #bioluminescence in #Anthozoa with emphasis on Octocorallia: Danielle DeLeo et al. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2023.2626

"New research on branching #animals known as #octocorals pushes the early days of bioluminescence back over 200 million years"

Glowing Sea Creatures Have Been Lighting Up the Oceans for More Than Half a Billion Years

New research on branching animals known as octocorals pushes the early days of bioluminescence back over 200 million years

Smithsonian Magazine

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Apr 25, 2024

Bioluminescence first evolved in animals at least 540 million years ago, pushing back previous oldest dated example https://phys.org/news/2024-04-bioluminescence-evolved-animals-million-years.html

#Evolution of bioluminescence in #Anthozoa with emphasis on #Octocorallia: Danielle DeLeo et al. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2023.2626

"#Bioluminescence first evolved in #animals at least 540 million years ago in #octocorals... The results push back the previous record for the trait's oldest dated emergence in animals by nearly 300 million years"

Bioluminescence first evolved in animals at least 540 million years ago, pushing back previous oldest dated example

Bioluminescence first evolved in animals at least 540 million years ago in a group of marine invertebrates called octocorals, according to the results of a new study from scientists with the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.

Phys.org

DORIS_FFESSM_BioSubaquatique Apr 16, 2024

Dans l'#Atlantique nord et l'#Artique (normal), il y a des anémones de Noël, très colorées, sous des combinaisons de rouge, de vert, de jaune, de marron, de beige ou d'olive

FEY Laurent, MARAN Vincent in : #DORIS, 14/04/2024 :
Urticina crassicornis (Müller, 1776), https://doris.ffessm.fr/ref/specie/4315

#biodiversite #Cnidaires #Anthozoa #NlleFiche #Actiniaria #biodiversity #Québec