"Shimmering Polyps" Size:20x30 Named for a coral-covered pinnacle

Named for a coral-covered pinnacle with a look-out into the blue

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Spidery Brittle Stars climb red finger sponges at night

The aging wreck of a Japanese Zero fighter plane in Papua New Guinea

and a team of researchers at Kean University studied the changes to reef over time

"Shimmering Polyps" Size:20x30 Named for a coral-covered pinnacleGreen Fluorescent Protein (GFP) in living coral polyps light up in brilliant green in response to pure blue light. Special filters in the camera lens block out the blue illumination, recording only the glowing green coral polyps and the red biofluorescence emitted by chlorophyll in the algae covering the reef substrate. Coral species can be identified by the patterns of the biofluorescence they emit. Archival fine art print on Aluminum composite with