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 ...

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.

Some reef fish have the unexpected ability to move their jaws from side to side, biologists have discovered. This ability -- which is rare among vertebrate animals -- allows these fish to feed rapidly ...

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 ...

Reef sounds are beneficial to some marine animals, which use them to locate reefs – a source of food and shelter. For researchers, recent studies suggest that sound recordings could be an effective ...

Although they occupy less than 0.1% of the ocean floor, coral reefs are home to a quarter of all marine life - that’s more species than rainforests. Animals use reefs for shelter, food and laying eggs ...