Museum researchers reconstructed the evolutionary history of stony corals over the past 460 million years, providing insights ...

One of the world's great coral reef regions protected fish from the ravages of climate change for the past 3 million years. The amazing diversity of sea anemone, stationary animals that typically live ...

Coral reefs are the most diverse of all marine ecosystems. They teem with life, with about one-quarter of all ocean species depending on reefs for food and shelter at some point in their lifecycle.

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Coral bleaching refers to the process by which coral lose their bright, vibrant colors and turn white. This happens when coral get stressed and “expel” the microscopic bacteria that live on them and ...

MIAMI - They are often called the rainforest of the sea, but now coral reefs with their beautiful shapes and colors are dying. The extreme heat we have been experiencing is just too much for them to ...

Coral reefs are necessarily gorgeous in color and movement, but below the waves there is a similarly colorful world of sound. Underwater, there is a soundscape of snapping shrimp, grunting fish, and ...

The sea surface temperature around the Great Barrier Reef this year is the hottest it has ever been in 400 years, posing huge threats to the coral reef ecosystem in the area. When you purchase through ...