Australia is doing absolutely everything to protect its most iconic ecosystem — except, perhaps, the one thing that really ...

Coral reefs appear to run a daily timetable for microscopic life in nearby waters. Scientists found that microbial ...

Coral reefs are complex marine habitats that have been hypothesized to facilitate functional specialization and increased rates of functional and morphological evolution. Wrasses (Labridae: ...

Researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), in collaboration with the University of the Virgin Islands ...

Coral reefs are one of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet. What are the abiotic and biotic interactions that structure this diverse ecosystem? Corals are members of the phylum Cnidaria, a ...

Researchers recently discovered several new deep-water species, including sharks, during a three-month expedition in Papua New Guinea. The team explored an area known as the Coral Triangle, which is ...

Almost one decade of recorded data retrieved from deep coral reef dives reveals some of the first evidence of that climate change is warming the ocean’s ‘twilight zone’.

Proof of Concept is a video series profiling the science and scientists behind some of the environment’s most unexpected research. This story was co-published with Science Friday. While the Gulf of ...

A brooding mother octopus shelters her eggs behind two different types of corals. The image was made by pilots using a robot to explore the north wall of the Mar Del Plata submarine canyon in ...

Here at the southern tip of the Great Barrier Reef, you’re practically guaranteed to see them. Descending toward this ...

Most coral disease detection today relies on visual surveys by divers, often identifying disease only after significant damage has occurred. This limits the ability of scientists and reef managers to ...