Record-breaking ocean heat has taken a devastating toll on one of the world’s greatest natural wonders, with coral bleaching ...

and a coral reef ecosystem shine in the NOAA and and National Marine Sanctuary Foundation’s ‘Get Into Your Sanctuary’ photo contest. The winning photos celebrate the National Marine ...

Off the coast of the Maldives, the coral reef “twilight zone” is buzzing with life. This section of reef — categorized as ...

While the discovery of the world’s largest coral is a game-changer, there’s still so much more to learn about the marine life ...

In large numbers, crown-of-thorns starfish can mow down wide swaths of coral reef. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) reports that Acropora species are in the top three ...

Three of the new species — Haliclona pahua, Haliclona kahoe and Haliclona loe — are new to science, Toonen said. They were ...

Most corals are colonial animals - superorganisms comprising lots of smaller organisms - made up of multitudes sea anemone-like coral polyps. In the reef-building "hard corals", the polyps sit in ...

The reef-building coral has a hard shell and creates coral ... of local diving store Urban Sports in April 2023 who posted photos on social media. Hiroya Yamano, a professor at the University ...

Horiguchi has taken pictures of coral in the same area of the island's Sakieda Bay about 10 times since 2019, but had never seen the coral reef stretching so far. “I could feel the vitality of ...