Crews have installed 22 life-sized concrete cars off Miami Beach as part of an underwater art project that doubles as a coral ...

A school of fish swim above a staghorn (Acropora cervicornis) coral colony as it grows on the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Cairns, Australia SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian scientists have come ...

Soft corals produce diterpenoids, chemicals that could be used to treat human disease. Now, scientists have identified the genes that make these important chemicals, opening the door to creating a ...

Their distinctive shape, which resembles a rod studded with branching outgrowths at regular intervals, enables them to ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. - Soft corals at three sites in the U.S. Virgin Islands were able to recover from the destructive effects of nearly back-to-back Category 5 storms in 2017, but the story of these ...

Touch the branches of Leptogorgia chilensis, a soft coral found along the Pacific coast from California to Chile, and its ...

According to a 26-year study from the University of Gothenburg, published in the journal Ecology and Evolution, limitations ...

Soft corals at three sites in the U.S. Virgin Islands were able to recover from the destructive effects of nearly back-to-back Category 5 storms in 2017, but the story of these apparently hardy ...

From pit vipers to funnel web spiders, living creatures continue to prove a rich source of medicines with life-saving potential, but some are more forthcoming than others with their powerful compounds ...

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 ...

Australian scientists have come up with a model that will help researchers quickly identify soft corals most vulnerable to bleaching from marine heatwaves, helping prioritise resources to preserve ...

Soft corals at three sites in the US Virgin Islands were able to recover from the destructive effects of nearly back-to-back Category 5 storms in 2017, but research by a marine ecologist puts that ...