Scientists now believe that coral larvae in their mobile stage are drawn to these sounds, using them as a signal that a reef is suitable for settlement. Researchers in a recent study published in ...

Coral reefs are some of the world's most diverse ecosystems. Despite making up less than 1% of the world's oceans, one ...

The analogy is often drawn to tropical rainforests, which are also extremely diverse and exist in nutrient poor conditions. The key to the existence of coral reefs rests in the rapid recycling of ...

Tabulata and Rugosa are orders of extinct corals that have been taxonomically described for more than 170 years. They were ...

Variety has announced an exclusive watch party of a new documentary “Reef Builders,” presented by the SHEBA brand, followed ...

John "Charlie" Veron -- widely known as "The Godfather of Coral" -- is a renowned reef expert who has personally discovered nearly a quarter of the world's coral species and has spent the past 45 ...

Coral polyps, the reef's building blocks ... But they are disasters from which the reef has always recovered. Drawn to the smell of a dead sperm whale, a ten-foot tiger shark arrives at the ...

Reporting in Proceedings Biological Sciences, researchers found that a species of branching coral benefitted from a reef-dwelling crab, especially when the coral was heat-stressed and wounded.