The Great Barrier Reef in Australia and the Red Sea in Egypt are world-famous for their magnificent coral landscapes. Both ...

"Deep-sea coral have tentacles that can manually bring ... sometimes killing a few individual coral polyps or branches, and in some cases killing whole colonies. "Our teams are continuing to ...

the framework of the coral reef is filled with sediment and cemented with calcite and aragonite. If sea level changes, the reefs become exposed to corrosive rainwater that dissolves the unstable ...

The ornately colored sea anemone (uh-NEM-uh-nee) is named after the equally flashy terrestrial anemone flower. A close relative of coral and jellyfish, anemones are stinging polyps that spend most ...

Alex Mustard (UK) shows the biodiversity of a healthy coral reef as ghost gobies swim within the branches of a sea fan. Alex is particularly fond of gobies. These little fish are normally skittish, ...

A diver glides over an expanse of bone-white coral branches, recording the fish that dart between the ghostly arms extending from the sea floor off the Thai island of Koh Tao. Nannalin ...

Beneath the waters off Egypt’s Red Sea coast, a kaleidoscopic ecosystem teems with life. It could become the world’s “last coral refuge” as global heating eradicates reefs elsewhere ...

This coral (pictured below) would have provided sanctuary for thousands of sea creatures including oysters and plants amid its complex system of crevices, layers and branches. 'A great number of ...

It tells of a time 125,000 years ago, when a modest increase in Earth’s temperatures caused ice sheets to melt and global sea levels to surge. The height of the coral — which can grow only ...

He confirmed that the coral was distributed in nine locations. Yamano ... and slowly migrated northward and settled in the cold sea.” ...