The positive contributions of Marine Lab students and scientists continue to enrich the cultural and biological systems of ...

Volcanic islands, such as those in Hawaii and the Caribbean, are often fringed by coral reefs – ring-shaped structures that ...

Researchers have discovered two new and unusual species of bacteria in deep-sea coral in the Gulf of Mexico. The discovery, announced in the journal Nature Communications, points to a type of life ...

in a part of the Red Sea that is being developed as a luxury tourist resort. The colony, a feature within a reef made up of one specific type of the tiny coral-building animal known as a polyp ...

Certain types of algae release chemicals that ... these chemical cues over an extended period of time in the ocean to entice baby coral. "If you just throw these chemical cues in the ocean they ...