Tropical reefs might look like inanimate rock, but these colorful seascapes are built by tiny jellyfish-like animals called ...

As coral reefs undergo a fourth global mass bleaching event, marine scientists have been studying whether new reefs might ...

As baby corals float in the currents, they can expand their species’ range. But can they get to climate refuges fast enough ...

Just a few meters beneath the clear, blue waters of Okinawa, reef-building corals known as Scleractinia have quietly lived ...

So the clue was, ‘This temperate coral undergoes quiescence in the winter. Another word for this is … ?’” Anya Brown has ...

The hard version of coral polyps produces limestone that is used to form layer after layer of a rigid coral skeleton. Groups ...

Coral reefs are large underwater structures formed by colonies of corals—tiny marine animals that build hard skeletons—and they support diverse marine life like shrimp, fish, and crabs. The Great ...

When that liquid is sprayed or painted onto a surface – such as a piece of dead coral – then exposed to ultraviolet light, it polymerizes into a hydrogel form. That gel is capable of clinging ...

Reefs will reach a tipping point where the carbonate coral structure starts to dissolve faster than it can be formed. When that happens, they will begin to disintegrate. The most diverse ecosystem ...

A new assessment finds that the world’s oceans crossed the safe threshold for acidification in 2020, breaching a key ...

The wires connecting the handles in flyers’ hands to their model planes are thin enough to be barely visible — especially ...