Around the world, coral reefs are under threat from rising ocean temperatures, deteriorating water conditions, and diseases ...

This coral keeps time without a brain, showing how distributed nerve nets can synchronize movement across an entire animal.

Australia is doing absolutely everything to protect its most iconic ecosystem — except, perhaps, the one thing that really ...

A joint study by Tel Aviv University and the University of Haifa set out to solve a scientific mystery: how a soft coral is ...

A tracking study of two species of sea turtles that nest in the Red Sea revealed the importance of foraging areas and ...

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 ...

Coral reefs are often framed as postcard scenery or biodiversity hotspots, but they are also working food factories that the world is quietly running into the ground. As overfishing and climate stress ...

The warm waters around the Andaman Islands are full of movement, color, and the occasional surprise. With coral reefs ...

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 lifecycle.