Most corals are colonial animals - superorganisms comprising lots of smaller organisms - made up of multitudes sea anemone-like coral polyps. In the reef-building "hard corals", the polyps sit in ...

Pat Hutchings, a marine biologist focused on studying marine worms, visited Bora-Bora in 2015 while on vacation and decided ...

Under the guidance of a fine arts specialist with the Halifax Regional Centre for Education, the grades Primary to 3 students at Horizon Elementary created a glow-in-the-dark coral reef room ...

Colors range from dark gray and brown to more vibrant pinks ... In large numbers, crown-of-thorns starfish can mow down wide swaths of coral reef. The International Union for Conservation of ...

At dusk we returned to the mangroves and submerged into the dark water with ... has proven resilient to coral bleaching, but it faces the same threat that other reefs do as the ocean warms ...

Maahid Photos via Unsplash Off the coast of the Maldives, the coral reef “twilight zone” is buzzing with life. This section of reef — categorized as coral reefs at depths between 100 and 500 ...