Did you think sea anemones were a type of plant growing in the ocean?They stick to rocks, sway back and forth, and look like ...

The first-ever global assessment of these vibrant underwater ecosystems paints a grim picture: Climate change projections put ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Most of the world's reef-building coral species are now considered endangered and 44% of corals globally are at risk of extinction ...

Bleached coral pieces were able to recover when in contact with healthy ones.

This summer, it was all over the media. Driven by the climate crisis, the oceans have now also passed a critical point: The absorption of CO 2 is making the oceans increasingly acidic. The shells of ...

A research team has discovered two remarkable species of bacteria in the tissue of two deep-sea corals from the Gulf of Mexico. These previously unknown symbionts of the corals have an extremely small ...

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Written by Danielle DeLeo, postdoctoral associate in biological sciences at FIU. Our research focuses on octocorals ...

Coral reefs are among the most biologically rich ecosystems in the entire ocean, providing food and shelter for countless ...

With time-lapse video, scientists show how tiny mushroom corals can move themselves to influence their fate. Trilobites With time-lapse video, scientists show how tiny mushroom corals can move ...

A coral is often a colony of tiny, genetically identical animals. New research suggests that when a bleached coral fragment ...

If climate change continues apace, 96 percent of shallow coral reef ecosystems may collapse within 50 years, including in ...