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

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 ...

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

Mauritius will soon be home to one of the largest projects in the Western Indian Ocean aimed at restoring corals through sexual propagation. The scientific research for the Odysseo coral restoration ...

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

"Leveraged our deep expertise." Scientists develop game-changing sunscreen that solves major problem with existing products: ...

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.

An international research team led by marine biologist Prof. Dr. Maren Ziegler from Justus Liebig University Giessen (JU) has developed an innovative method for reconstructing the past of corals and ...

This is especially concerning given that corals are already suffering from marine heatwaves and pollution, which are leading ...