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IN THE RED SEA DISCOVERED A NEW SPECIES OF THE LUMINOUS POLYPS Author: Antonenko Andrei – from internet editions of "World of Wildlife", 2016   An international team of biologists, which included scientists from the M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, opened the Red Sea, on the reef Farasan Archipelago (Saudi Arabia), a new species fluorescent polyps living in the shells of shellfish, and collected his DNA samples. Article about it, published in the journal PLoS One , tells the press release of the Moscow University. Opened animals are miniature hydroid polyps, or hydroids (being reminiscent of the hydras a school textbook, which fall to them relatively close relatives) with a body length of about 1.5 millimeters. They live in...

Nature Reserve for saving one species of birds   In Australia, creating a new reserve area of 56 thousand hectares. in order to maintain or not the rarest species of birds - parrots night ( Pezoporus occidentalis (Gould, 1861)). Collections Manager of South Australian Museum Dr. Philip Horton says about the discovery is: "This is one of the holy Grail bowls, and probably one of the rarest species in the world." This Australian parrot believed extinct since '75, there was no information about his observations. But in 2013, naturalist John Young discovered bird and its feathers in south-west Queensland. Since ecologist Dr. Steve Murphy began targeted research in this place. He said it is clear that save the species from extinction...