Six Flags Great Adventure‘s newest giraffe calf. The Jackson, New Jersey, resort announced the newest edition to its Wild ...

Talking about large marine animals always leads to thinking about the books of Jules Verne, the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies, the books that led to films such as 'Jaws' and al ...

Time-lapse video shows how a mushroom coral polyp pulses and inflates, flinging its soft body into micro-hops to slowly move itself to a new location.

Researchers have found crabs are key predators of juvenile crown-of-thorns starfish and could be a hidden link to what ...

Biology in the background Coral reefs are made of communities of living coral animals that populate the rocky skeletons of their ancestors. An individual coral animal is called a polyp. These polyps ...

Coral is two things at once. It is a stony underwater structure, often spanning swaths of seafloor, that shelters ecstatically diverse marine life. It’s also the animal that builds that structure: an ...

Crab behavior suggestive of wound-tending may improve coral tolerance to heat waves. For certain vulnerable corals, help is in the claws of a crab. Reporting in Proceedings Biological Sciences ...

Tails are wagging at the Cape Coral Animal Shelter. The nonprofit, no-kill shelter and veterinary clinic received a $1.5 million grant from the Golisano Foundation. It will go toward a major ...