💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🐚💉 Cone #snails pack a #venom with over 1,000 unique peptides – a #chemical toolkit already yielding one #FDA-approved non-addictive #painkiller.

Researchers at #Harvard and the University of #Queensland are now exploring these #toxins for treating #diabetes, nerve damage, #epilepsy, and #cancer, saying they’ve barely scratched the surface.

👉 https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/cone-snail-venom-medicinal-uses/

#conotoxin #marinebiology #ziconotide #drugs #neurobiology #coralreef #biochemistry #ocean #nature

One of The Ocean’s Deadliest Snails Gave Us a Nonaddictive Painkiller and Scientists Say They Have Barely Scratched The Surface

They hide a vast chemical arsenal that researchers are mining for pain, diabetes, and brain disease therapies.

ZME Science

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🐚💉 Cone #snails pack a #venom with over 1,000 unique peptides – a #chemical toolkit already yielding one #FDA-approved non-addictive #painkiller.

Researchers at #Harvard and the University of #Queensland are now exploring these #toxins for treating #diabetes, nerve damage, #epilepsy, and #cancer, saying they’ve barely scratched the surface.

👉 https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/cone-snail-venom-medicinal-uses/

#conotoxin #marinebiology #ziconotide #drugs #neurobiology #coralreef #biochemistry #ocean #nature

One of The Ocean’s Deadliest Snails Gave Us a Nonaddictive Painkiller and Scientists Say They Have Barely Scratched The Surface

They hide a vast chemical arsenal that researchers are mining for pain, diabetes, and brain disease therapies.

ZME Science

Coral Reefs Worth $2.7 Trillion/Year: How 25,500 Restored Corals Are Saving Mauritius’s Fisheries & Tourism

MV Wakashio’s 1,000-tonne oil spill destroyed Mauritius reefs, Dr. Nadeem Nazurally’s ecoMode Society used microfragmentation to restore 25,500 corals. With fishers and women farmers, 86,000 sqm became a conservation area, protecting fisheries and tourism livelihoods SIDS depend on

Read Full https://economicsperspective.com/explained/Coral-reef-restoration-Mauritius-OilSpill/

#coralreef #BreakingNews #oceanscience #news #economicgrowth #oilspills

"‘Slumping’ afflicted soft corals around a South Korean island in 2024. Will it return this year?

#Coral #CoralReef #SouthKorea

https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/slumping-afflicted-soft-corals-around-a-south-korean-island-in-2024-will-it-return-this-year/

‘Slumping’ afflicted soft corals around a South Korean island in 2024. Will it return this year?

JEJU ISLAND, South Korea — In April 2025, I zipped myself up into a thick wetsuit and inched down a steep, rocky ledge toward the gray-blue water encircling Beomseom, a small island off the southern coast of Jeju Island in South Korea. Then I leapt into the chilly sea and wriggled into my scuba gear […]

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"Responsible Coral Reef Tourism can Help Protect Fragile Oceans"

#Coral #CoralReef #Oceans

https://happyeconews.com/responsible-coral-reef-tourism/

Responsible Coral Reef Tourism can Help Protect Fragile Oceans | Happy Eco News

UNEP and the Reef-World Foundation’s Green Fins initiative are promoting responsible coral reef tourism through practical steps travelers can take to reduce damage to marine ecosystems.

Happy Eco News

#FotoVorschlag

“Tag des Meeres” / World Oceans Day

From a visit to the California Academy of Sciences. This diver is doing some maintenance work in an aquarium display on the biodiversity of Philippine coral reefs. (Since I don’t have a waterproof camera, this is the closest I’ll get to an underwater ocean shot!)

#fotovorschlag #photography #underwater #aquarium #fish #coralreef #scuba #worldoceansday #marinelife

Rare Hybrid Sea Turtle Released Back Into The Ocean After Rescue 

Jekyll Island Authority A unique turtle is officially getting a second chance at life in the big blue. Last month we reported on a special resident at the Georgia Sea Turtle Center in Jekyll Island, Georgia: a first-generation hybrid sea turtle, the child of a Loggerhead sea turtle father (Caretta caretta) and a Kemp’s ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys kempii) mother. Nicknamed Earl Grey, the reptile-turned-celebrity has returned to the wild......Continue reading.... By: Margherita […]

https://onlinemarketingscoops.com/2026/06/01/rare-hybrid-sea-turtle/

Rare Hybrid Sea Turtle Released Back Into The Ocean After Rescue 

Jekyll Island Authority A unique turtle is officially getting a second chance at life in the big blue. Last month we reported on a special resident at the Georgia Sea Turtle Center in Jekyll Island…

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Keindahan Karang Laut yang Menopang Kehidupan Bawah Laut

ID 7039619 © Michael Ludwig | Dreamstime.com Menyelami Dunia Sea Rod, Penjaga Sunyi Ekosistem Terumbu Karang Lautan menyimpan berbagai keajaiban yang belum sepenuhnya terungkap oleh manusia. Di balik permukaan air yang tenang, terdapat dunia bawah laut yang dipenuhi kehidupan, warna, dan interaksi biologis yang luar biasa kompleks. Salah satu penghuni yang menarik perhatian dalam foto ini adalah koloni karang bercabang yang dikenal sebagai Sea Rod, sejenis karang lunak dari kelompok […]

https://frnstudio.wordpress.com/2026/05/30/keindahan-karang-laut-yang-menopang-kehidupan-bawah-laut/