Coral reefs are the lifeblood of the ocean, providing shelter and resources for countless marine animals. Discover 10 ...

A whopping 84% of coral reefs are affected by the latest global bleaching event, which is the worst on record.

The animals prefer water depths between 15 and ... In large numbers, crown-of-thorns starfish can mow down wide swaths of coral reef. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN ...

At the Florida Aquarium’s coral breeding lab, it looks like hundreds of knobby, golden-brown pastries. Scientists believe ...

The oceans are getting hotter and coral reefs are burning up. These undersea cities, built over centuries by tiny animals ...

Coral reefs are the most biodiverse habitats in the oceans, and like the trees of a rainforest, the coral structures provide the structure of the ecosystem, within which other plants and animals live.

Coral reefs are made up of colonies of hundreds to thousands of tiny individual corals, called polyps. These marine invertebrate animals have hard exoskeletons made of calcium carbonate, and are ...