Newfoundland scientists have found an unusual type of coral garden near one of the province’s offshore islands. Researchers at Memorial University’s Marine Institute discovered a cold-water soft coral ...
University of Sydney marine biologists have identified a devastating combination of coral bleaching and a rare necrotic wasting disease that wiped out large, long-lived corals on the Great Barrier ...
Heat-hardy corals off the coast of Broward County escaped a mass bleaching event two years back that devastated much of South Florida's reef tract. They couldn't take the heat this summer. Earlier ...
If you liked this story, share it with other people. In 2024, scientists and conservationists documented a soft coral “slumping” event along the southern coast of South Korea’s Jeju Island, which led ...
A rare coral species found nowhere else on Earth except Kaneohe Bay in Hawaii has been successfully returned to its natural habitat after completely disappearing from the wild. The recovery project ...
On occasion, it is of vital importance to consider how little we know about the spinning rock we all live on. Take coral reefs, for example. Given how much they've been studied, you'd think we've ...
By Hyeyoon Cho JEJU, South Korea, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Ko Myeong-hyo loved the vibrant colour and thriving life of South Korea's soft corals when she first began diving off the coast of Jeju island six ...
University of Sydney marine biologists have identified a devastating combination of coral bleaching and a rare necrotic wasting disease that wiped out large, long-lived corals on the Great Barrier ...
Soft corals can emit a noxious brew of terpenes to kill their stony coral cousins and inhibit others from gaining a foothold. Stony corals retaliate by deploying sweeper tentacles, long whip-like ...