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Filming with the #BBC for a new series due to air in 2019, and this little lady is one of the many stars of the show. Can't wait to see the final product... and get my free BBC merch that I begged for. (at QUT (Queensland University of Technology))

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Leonardo DiCaprio shared our research today ✊ ✌ 🌍 🌏 Its always a massive win to have fantastic celebrity ambassadors on the side of logic and science. 🔬🔭 @Regrann from @leonardodicaprio - #Regram #RG @insiderscience: This time lapse of coral bleaching shows the negative effects of climate change on our oceans. #savetheplanet #insiderscience - #regrann

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Leonardo DiCaprio shared our research today ✊✌🌍🌏 Its always a massive win to have such influential ambassadors promoting logic and science. @Regrann from @leonardodicaprio - #Regram #RG @insiderscience: This time lapse of coral bleaching shows the negative effects of climate change on our oceans. #savetheplanet #insiderscience - #regrann (at QUT (Queensland University of Technology))

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Rock pools overlooking the ocean. #notabadview (at Evans Head NSW)

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While Epaulette sharks have nocturnal habits, it’s still common to find them on the reef flat in the middle of the day.

Hemiscyllium ocellatum

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Happy 88th Birthday David Attenborough b. 8th May 1926

The remote and lonely beach where I first saw a Komodo dragon, ten feet long, stalking imperiously across the sand, now receives several boatloads of visitors every day. The tropical swamps in northern Australia filled with magpie geese are now part of a national park and queues of visitors file into the caves to see the ancient rock paintings that I was lucky enought to photograph for the first time.

From the seventies onwards, the films had reasonable technical competence. As I look at them now, lined up on a shelf, I like to think that they give a fair and comprehensive picture of how the natural world was and how human beings viewed it during the second half of the twentieth century. Maybe in another fifty years they will be valued as records of some species that have by then disappeared. I hope not.

But I did not make them because I had premonitions of impending eco-disaster. I did so because I know of no pleasure deeper than that which comes from contemplating the natural world and trying to understand it.

- David Attenborough, Life on Air, 1997

Favia sp

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Tube anemones, like the one picture here, may look like coral but actually have far more in common with jelly fish. Anemones don't produce skeletons like most common reef building corals and this Cerianthus sp uses its tube like foot to bury itself into a sandy substrate, where it then will hunt for small fish and invertebrates that float on by.

Cerianthus sp.

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David Attenborough with his son, Robert, whilst looking at animal called a coati-mundi, brought home from the combined London Zoo - BBC expedition to British Guyana

Carnivorous by nature, ancora's or "hammer" corals use their tentacles to feed from the water column. They have extremely powerful nematocysts that can stun prey and draw it towards its mouth. They can devourer entire fish, shrimp and similar sized invertebrates but mostly feed on Zooplankton.

Euphyllia ancora.

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The Outer Reef Crest on Heron Island.

Dominated by an incredible amount of clean water, high energy, high light loving Acropora sp, this reef crest encompasses almost the entire outline of heron reef and is the beginnings of what will, one day be, the inner reef lagoons substrata.

Acropora such as these are incredibly sensitive to heavy metals, high organics and increases in turbid waters that surround our reefs. All these stressors are caused by farming and everyday pollution. When these increase (not by much either only e.g: 0.003 ppm* phosphate) they are often the first to die off.

This is why they are now only found in abundance on outer reef slopes and surrounding isolated islands as they no longer exist on inner fringing reefs.

Heron Island.

*parts per million.