UC Davis researchers are studying why some corals can stand heat and heal from bleaching. The answers could help protect ...

By Carolyn Cowan Marine scientists compiling the most holistic “snapshot” of Thailand’s coral reefs to date have uncovered ...

For Les Watling, ecologist and professor emeritus at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, the name for a new species of deep-sea coral—Iridogorgia chewbacca—was intuitive from the start. Everyone who ...

After two years of record-breaking ocean heat, scientists are assessing the impacts of the world’s fourth mass bleaching event on coral reefs around the globe. At least 74 countries and territories ...

An attorney with Earthjustice writes that an Army Corps of Engineers dredging project in Port Everglades would devastate the ...

Florida’s coral reefs have been on the decline for decades, and it looks like things could get a whole lot worse. Seven species of coral found in Florida and Caribbean waters “are extremely likely to ...

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 ...

Coral reefs are one of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet. What are the abiotic and biotic interactions that structure this diverse ecosystem? Corals are members of the phylum Cnidaria, a ...

Once a picturesque garden beneath the sea, some stretches of the Florida Coral Reef have now become graveyards. Unburied ...

A deep-sea catshark (Scyliorhinus haeckelii) documented at 198 meters on the outer edge of the continental shelf, near the ...

Marine researchers have been wowed by the size of a centuries-old black coral found in Fiordland.

A new species of coral named after the “Star Wars” character Chewbacca was found in waters off Molokai as well as near the Mariana Trench. “Normally the branches are stiff and they stick out from the ...