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

Discover the vital coral reefs importance for ocean biodiversity, coastal protection, and marine conservation efforts to save ...

Ancient Temperature Triggers Reveal How It All Began It demonstrates that the onset of reef growth on the outer shelf was ...

This summer, it was all over the media. Driven by the climate crisis, the oceans have now also passed a critical point: The ...

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 ...

Young corals can still build skeletons in acidic water, but the altered crystal structure makes the skeletons smaller and ...

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An international research team led by marine biologist Prof. Dr. Maren Ziegler from Justus Liebig University Giessen (JU) has ...

Marine biologist recalls discovering the world’s largest coral near the Solomon Islands. The organism covers almost half a ...

Discovered by National Geographic's Manu San Félix, this 500-year-old coral the size of half a football field is changing how scientists view ocean resilience.

Australia's Great Barrier Reef, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is the world's largest coral reef system, visible from space.

As a late 20-something-year-old I joined the hundreds of thousands of Aussies that travel to Bali each year seeking sun, sand ...