The Largest Living Structure on Earth Imagine something so vast that it's visible even from space—this is the Great Barrier ...

Record-breaking ocean heat has taken a devastating toll on one of the world’s greatest natural wonders, with coral bleaching on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef reaching “catastrophic” levels, a new ...

The Coral Triangle is a marine region that spans those parts of Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands and Timor-Leste with at least 500 species of reef-building ...

An individual coral is a polyp. It’s a very small and simple creature consisting mostly of a stomach topped by a mouth, a bit like a hungry toddler. Corals take a very long time to grow.

What is the staghorn coral? Like its name suggests, staghorn coral is a species of coral that looks a bit like the antlers of a male deer. Capable of growing into thickets up to five feet high and ...

But scientists have observed a free-living mushroom coral, Cycloseris cyclolites, actively “walking” toward blue light waves in a way that’s reminiscent of the pulsed swimming motion of ...

The 'Hot Tub of Despair,' ancient salt deposits and World War II wreckage Names given to the gulf have little bearing on the strange happenings beneath its surface, from fatal pools to coral habitats.

The 'Hot Tub of Despair,' ancient salt deposits and World War II wreckage Names given to the gulf have little bearing on the strange happenings beneath its surface, from fatal pools to coral habitats.