"It still amazes me when we can discover something this size still on our planet." ...

Federal fishery managers approved a plan to allow rock shrimpers to drag trawling nets along a protected Florida seafloor with rare deepwater coral reefs found nowhere else in the world. Opening the ...

FORT PIERCE, Fla. — One of the world's rarest ecosystems off Florida's Treasure Coast moved one step closer to being reopened to shrimp trawling for the first time in decades. WATCH: Council votes ...

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 ...

Beneath the beauty of coral reefs lies a hidden universe of microbes unlike anything scientists expected. Each coral species ...

The Philippines' protected reefs, considered the Coral Triangle's crown jewel, provide exceptional diving experiences, ...

Coral reefs are often described in scientific terms: ecosystems rich in biodiversity, natural storm barriers, and sources of food and income. Yet for many scientists, the path into reef research did ...

Marine scientists have documented Thailand’s coral reefs in unprecedented detail, providing a crucial baseline against which reef managers can measure future change. The surveys indicate that, as in ...