Large pieces of brain coral are washing ashore on Texas beaches, likely due to storms or other underwater disturbances. Brain coral, a slow-growing hard coral, forms important reef habitats in the ...

Museum researchers reconstructed the evolutionary history of stony corals over the past 460 million years, providing insights ...

Cailyn Joseph, a PhD student in Andrew Baker's lab, organizes brain and elkhorn coral in Honduras before the trip to Miami. MIAMI — Off the northern coast of Honduras, thick stands of endangered ...

A coral reef in Belize showing dead coral, living healthy elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata), both diseased and healthy symmetrical brain corals (Pseudodiploria strigosa), and a spotfin butterflyfish.

Read full article: Florida’s coral reefs are dying. Here’s why you should care Volunteer Daniel Hyduke of Miami Beach, Fla., clips a fragment of coral to be transplanted from the coral nursery to the ...

Capturing the first underwater color photographs was no mean feat and involved powerful explosives as well as hours and hours of waiting.

From hotter temperatures that contribute to ocean acidification and coral degradation to instances of coral bleaching caused by a combination of warmer oceans, overfishing and pollution, Caribbean ...

as extremely warm waters damage reefs in the country’s largest marine reserve. Pedro Pereira is a coordinator for the nonprofit Reef Conservation Project. “Coral reefs are very sensitive to changes in ...