A Florida State University ecology and evolutionary biologist has discovered that the reproductive methods of individual coral species play a crucial role in their ability to survive, and even thrive, ...

Like in humans, microbe levels can indicate health of ecosystem, say scientists from Hebrew University of Jerusalem and ...

Healthy corals like these on Australia's Lady Elliot Reef could disappear by the 2030s if climate change is not curbed. Rebecca Spindler, CC BY-ND This novel approach involves storing and cooling ...

A paper published by URI researchers reveals key mechanisms in speciation in corals. Critically threatened by climate change, a better understanding of coral biology will help efforts to conserve and ...

In a state-of-the-art facility in the Bahamas, conservationists are working to breed and preserve Caribbean corals under threat from bleaching and disease. The Bahamas is a coral reef hotspot and ...

In a lab at the University of Miami, there are tanks of knobby, tan-colored corals from Florida, Honduras and the Cayman Islands. They've been drafted into a sort of coral Olympics, as scientists look ...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). “Can you hear that sound like pouring milk on Rice Krispies? It’s the snapping shrimp — they have one massive claw and one small one.

Marine biologists in Venezuela are racing against the clock to stop an invasive species of soft coral that are ravaging reefs. Ana Yranzo Duque, a coral reef researcher at the Universidad Central de ...

The coral reefs off the shores of the Florida Keys should be vibrant and colorful this time of year. But after some of the highest recorded water surface temperatures, scientists say they're seeing a ...