Ancient Temperature Triggers Reveal How It All Began It demonstrates that the onset of reef growth on the outer shelf was ...

Using an innovative new approach to sampling corals, researchers are now able to create maps of coral biochemistry that reveal with unprecedented detail the distribution of compounds that are integral ...

This summer, it was all over the media. Driven by the climate crisis, the oceans have now also passed a critical point: The ...

Coral reefs are made up mostly of coral colonies like these. Corals are live animals made up of a colony of individual "polyps." Each polyp produces a hard skeleton in a cuplike shape for protection ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Watch this coral wave its hands in the air like it just don’t care! But actually, it probably ...

Stony, rock hard corals are living animals, and here in Hawai i are known as koa. The coral animal is called a polyp, and it is a very tiny creature that looks like an upside-down jellyfish. These ...

Scientists were stunned when they discovered that a shipwreck shadow they thought they had spotted under their boat last November was actually a mega-coral. The Pavona clavus, now the world’s largest ...

The Netflix documentary Chasing Coral documents coral bleaching in the Great Barrier Reef and around the world like it has never been seen before. Using custom, high-tech underwater gear that only ...

Tiny coral polyps have been recorded kissing for the first time, thanks to a brand new way of filming sea life. The novel microscope camera also collected footage showing other previously unseen ...