Even if you’ve never owned a saltwater aquarium, it’s likely you’ve come across one before—perhaps at a restaurant or in your friend’s living room—with corals aglow and flamboyant fish flitting around ...

Touch the branches of Leptogorgia chilensis, a soft coral found along the Pacific coast from California to Chile, and its flexible arms stiffen. A research team led by University of Pennsylvania ...

Doctoral student Chenhao Hu holds up a 3D-printed model of a sclerite, the tiny mineral particles that make up the coral's skeleton and whose unique shape allows the organism to tune its own stiffness ...

This archipelago features extensive coral reefs, tropical fish habitats, and calm bays great for snorkeling and sailing, ...

Every reef has its own personality, but a few stand out with good reason. While the Great Barrier Reef is undeniably a world-class dive experience, other coral reefs do a spectacular job illustrating ...

The Caribbean archipelago stretches like a string of emeralds across azure waters, where each island offers its own ...

Touch the branches of Leptogorgia chilensis, a soft coral found along the Pacific coast from California to Chile, and its flexible arms stiffen, like Marvel's Mr. Fantastic warding off a foe. Now, ...

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Crews used large nets, water-filled containers and box trucks to relocate hundreds of river otters, sea turtles, manatees, ...

Coral reefs are marine structures created by calcifying coral animals and their algal symbionts. Coral reef ecosystems are generally high in biodiversity, most often found in shallow tropical seas, ...