Many deep-sea soft coral species light up briefly when bumped — or when stroked with a paintbrush. That’s what scientists used, attached to a remote-controlled underwater rover, to identify and study ...
a study co-author and marine biologist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. Soft coral may look like waving reeds, skeleton fingers or stalks of bamboo and glow pink, orange ...
One of the coral species is a close relative of the non-native soft coral currently spreading in Pearl Harbor, believed to have originated from an aquarium release.