Since most of our planet is comprised of water - with the ocean making up over 70% ... where vast walls of coral hypnotize, drawing nature lovers from across the world to delight in their beauty.

A colossal organism, dwarfing all expectations, has been discovered in the Pacific Ocean ... of Nature's Red List. The expedition team who discovered this specific specimen described the coral ...

Scientists and cultural practitioners are working to protect coral reefs and further understand the organisms foundational to ...

The "Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef" exhibit is now on view in Natural History's Sant Ocean Hall ... of hyperbolic space can be found in nature (the wavy edges of sea kelp, for example), but ...

There is a kingdom of coral in the principality of the Pacific Ocean called Kimbe Bay ... Among its advocates are the Nature Conservancy, which has designed a plan for 14 marine protected ...

marine scientists report in the Aug. 17 issue of Nature. Understanding larval dispersal through ocean currents is crucial in protecting the world's declining coral reefs, said Paul Barber ...

Single reefs here hold four times as many species as the entire Atlantic Ocean. All the planet's richest reefs lie within the "Coral Triangle" – a glittering collection of islands in the Indo ...

Martin Harvey / WWF The amazing thing about ... the zooxanthellae and the coral polyps is an excellent example of a mutually beneficial relationship, also known as symbiosis. Although they occupy less ...

Located on the northeast coast of St. Thomas, next to Coki Beach, Coral World also has a walk-through aviary and an offshore underwater observatory that lets you view ocean life 15 feet below the ...

The lagoon is open to the ocean towards the north-west ... 72° 23′, and forms the last of the great chain of coral formations reaching from the Laccadive Islands, through the Maldives to ...