The Largest Living Structure on Earth Imagine something so vast that it's visible even from space—this is the Great Barrier ...

Record-breaking ocean heat has taken a devastating toll on one of the world’s greatest natural wonders, with coral bleaching on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef reaching “catastrophic” levels, a new ...

An individual coral is a polyp. It’s a very small and simple creature consisting mostly of a stomach topped by a mouth, a bit like a hungry toddler. Corals take a very long time to grow.

But scientists have observed a free-living mushroom coral, Cycloseris cyclolites, actively “walking” toward blue light waves in a way that’s reminiscent of the pulsed swimming motion of ...

The 'Hot Tub of Despair,' ancient salt deposits and World War II wreckage Names given to the gulf have little bearing on the strange happenings beneath its surface, from fatal pools to coral habitats.

Record ocean heat has taken a devastating toll on one of the world’s greatest natural wonders, with coral bleaching on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef reaching “catastrophic” levels ...

The 'Hot Tub of Despair,' ancient salt deposits and World War II wreckage Names given to the gulf have little bearing on the strange happenings beneath its surface, from fatal pools to coral habitats.

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The southern Great Barrier Reef experienced catastrophic coral bleaching due to unprecedented marine heat waves in early 2024. A study documented that by April ...