Scientists found tiny reef fish resting safely inside Christmas tree worms, revealing a surprising coral reef relationship ...

Sunset Watersports Key West and Plant A Million Corals Foundation have announced a new partnership that connects the public ...

It looks nothing like a tree, lives underwater, and only comes out far enough to show off two brilliantly colored crowns. Yet ...

Coral reef ecosystems are metabolically founded on the mutualism between corals and photosynthetic dinoflagellates of the genus Symbiodinium. The glass anemone Aiptasia sp. has become a tractable ...

A Partnership Built on Poison The sea anemone is a predator. Its tentacles carry nematocysts, microscopic harpoons that fire venom into anything that brushes against them. Most fish die within seconds ...

The algae that power the world’s coral reefs survive inside coral cells by hijacking the very compartment built to destroy invaders, a new study has found. Rather than being digested, the algae move ...

For years, the outlook for coral reefs has been increasingly bleak. Mass coral bleaching events caused by severe marine heatwaves have fueled repeated warnings that reefs are rapidly on an ...

SINGAPORE, June 16 (Reuters) - Scientists have identified nearly 166,000 sq km (64,000 sq miles) of coral reefs that are capable of surviving and recovering from climate change, three times more than ...

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In the midst of one of the worst marine heatwaves in Western Australia's history, scientists have made a surprising discovery: some coral reefs off the coast are showing extraordinary resilience to ...

Lord Howe Island lies in the middle of the ocean, about 700 kilometres northeast of Sydney. It’s covered in lush forest and fringed by the world’s most southerly coral reef ecosystem. This reef system ...