| Tiny Fish Living in Coral Reefs Gets to Decide Birthday of Offspring | |
| By Rich Co |
Source: nature world news |
9/20/2022 |
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Scientists discovered that a particular species of tiny fish that lives in coral reefs choose the birthday of its young.
Choosing to leave the convenience and security of home to travel the globe is challenging. However, dads assist their children in taking the plunge by giving them a little nudge out the door at the ideal moment in the neon goby, a tiny coral reef fish. |
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The University of Texas at Austin Marine Science Institute and its associates have published a new paper in which they describe the first instance of a coral reef fish directly controlling the timing of the hatching of its young. Male neon gobies spit their embryos out of the entrance to the sponge where they live after taking the eggs out of the nest with their mouths and carrying the newly hatched larvae there. |
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