Scientists have long been sounding the alarm about decreasing greenhouse gases. Coral reefs now face extinction due to a lack ...

“What we saw happen was an extreme heat wave where conditions surpassed the thresholds of survival of a whole, entire species ...

Off the coast of Papua New Guinea, a "dwarf"-like sea creature with spotted eyes swam around a reef. It darted into a nearby ...

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 ...

The artificial reef off Miami Beach will be an art installation, a restoration of the island's coral habitat and an ...

Some dolphins treat skin conditions by rubbing themselves against corals, according to a recent report in the journal iScience. Researchers said in the report that the corals have medicinal properties ...

Fossils discovered in a 548-million-year-old reef in Namibia reveal how the oldest known animals to have hard shells were building reefs nearly 10 million years earlier than we thought. The rest ...

Animal reef-building evolved millions of years earlier than previously thought, researchers report today in Science. Scientists have discovered fossils indicating that animal, or metazoan, ...

It is a remarkable survivor of an ancient aquatic world -- now a new study sheds light on how one of Earth's oldest reefs was formed. Researchers have discovered that one of these reefs -- now ...