Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ORLANDO, Fla. – Simulated moonlight. Perfect temperatures. A hum of bubbling saltwater. A team of marine biologists had done ...

TAMPA, FLA. (WSVN) - The Florida Aquarium in Tampa is restoring reefs one polyp at a time. Aquarium workers transplanted 9,000 baby coral polyps born at the conservation center. All of them will ...

Japanese scientists confirm a new marine coral species, Corallizoanthus aureus, that glows in the dark and inhabits deep caves in the ocean.

The world’s largest coral has been found in the Solomon Islands, a remote nation made up of hundreds of small islands in the South Pacific. The coral measures 111 feet wide, 101 feet long, and nearly ...

Some coral species can be resilient to marine heat waves by "remembering" how they lived through previous ones, research by Oregon State University scientists suggests. Coral on the Great Barrier Reef ...

For a group of researchers in Japan, they stumbled upon something never seen before inside a deep-sea cave. While conducting deep-sea surveys using a remotely operated vehicle around Minamidaito ...

In a new study published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society, the scientists show how tiny hydrozoans, polyps smaller than one millimeter and commonly found in dense colonies on the surface of ...

When we are out snorkeling here in Hawai‘i, we all see hard stony coral that has different colors. Coral is made up of a hard calcium carbonate structure that is similar to the concrete we build ...

For two decades, Theresa Fyffe was a medical researcher. Now, she’s focused on a different kind of medicine: Coral triage. Fyffe is the executive director of the Great Barrier Reef Foundation, an ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Discovered in 2014, stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) has ...

The soft-bodied sea anemone does not produce reef-forming rocky skeletons on its own, but was induced to produce skeleton creating proteins, turning it into a good model system for studying coral ...