Reef Threads 280 – Twilight Zone and the Big Tank

We’re back for the 280th time. Our guests this week are Matt Wandell, Richard Ross and, for the first time, Nick Yim, from the Steinhart Aquarium at the California Academy of Sciences. Lots of subjects this week, but the big one is the new twilight-zone display at the aquarium and what it’s like to dive […]

Pygmy Seahorses: Masters of Camouflage

By Joshua Cassidy, KQED Science (some footage by Rich Ross) Alternate copy of video: https://vimeo.com/124145465 Over the summer, biologists from the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco returned from an expedition to the Philippines with some very rare and diminutive guests, a mating pair of pygmy seahorses. The two tiny fish, each shorter than an inch and […]

Pygmy Seahorses breeding at the Steinhart

Originally from Science Today at the California Academy of Sciences Academy researchers are among the first to study tiny, fascinating pygmy seahorses that live exclusively on coral in the Philippines. https://vimeo.com/107073346