Coral Reefs | SciShow Tangents Podcast - Video

Summer is just about over, but we can all cling to those warm, tropical feelings for at least one more week as we strap on our scuba gear and take a dive into the wild world of coral reefs! Scuba!

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[Trivia Question]

Coral average sperm per bubble
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4950549/

[Fact Off]

Deep-sea coral help zooxanthellae photosynthesize
https://www.scuba.com/blog/explore-the-blue/faascinating-phenomenon-coral-fluorescence/
https://elifesciences.org/articles/73521
https://www.science.org/content/article/coral-reefs-scatter-light-forests
https://www.science.org/content/article/scientists-measure-glow-inside-coral-first-time

Snapping shrimp colonies with queens
https://decapoda.nhm.org/pdfs/25410/25410.pdf
https://phys.org/news/2018-03-tradeoffs-weaponry-fecundity-snapping-shrimp.html
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0193305
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1549235
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10937227/
https://www.vims.edu/research/units/legacy/marine_biodiversity/resources/Synalpheus%20teaching%20resources.pdf

[Ask the Science Couch]

Artificial reef pros and cons
https://www.doi.gov/blog/artificial-reefs-create-homes-sea-life
https://floridakeys.noaa.gov/artificialreefs/effects.html
https://daily.jstor.org/do-artificial-reefs-work/
https://hakaimagazine.com/news/for-artificial-coral-reefs-time-is-not-enough/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025326X2100610X
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2020.00282/full

[Butt One More Thing]

Gastrovascular pores aka secret coral buttholes
https://hmr.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1007/BF02367177.pdf


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