Coral reefs are very much the rainforests of ... a material frequently used as building material. Corals which only formed in the past 100,000 years are quickly altered. Although the skeletons ...

A new study has found that nearly half the coral trout caught on the Great Barrier Reef come from marine reserves—where ...

The reefs the coral formed once teemed with so much life and biodiversity that scientists referred to them as the “rainforests of the sea.” Sensitive to temperature spikes, coral reefs now appear a ...

At Mote Marine Laboratory, our group has developed a new approach to restoring corals, depicted below. Already, we have seen new coral form across the dead skeleton of massive brain, boulder, star, ...

Before Charles Darwin came up with his famous theory about evolution, he proposed a theory of how coral reefs and atolls formed. Some of the specimens he collected to support his theory are now cared ...

Assisted by other animals with calcium carbonate skeletons and also coralline algae, corals form complex, three-dimensional reefs. Coral reefs provide an important ecosystem for marine life, offering ...

Chiba Prefecture’s Tateyama, at the south end of the Boso Peninsula, was believed to be the northernmost area of Japan where coral reefs could form. The diving point, however, sits 15 kilometers ...