Marine biologists in Venezuela are racing against the clock to stop an invasive species of soft coral that are ravaging reefs. Ana Yranzo Duque, a coral reef researcher at the Universidad Central de ...

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 ...

An invasive soft coral has been spotted in Hawaii and Puerto Rico and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration is warning Florida to start preparing. Xenia pulse corals are soft corals that ...

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 ...

Scleractinian corals, or hard corals, have been disappearing globally over the past four decades, a result of climate change, pollution, unsustainable coastal development and overfishing. However, ...

Along a coral reef off the coast of Oman, a rare sea creature swayed in the current. Sunlight filtered through the water and reflected off the animal, giving it a “crown” “of light.” Something about ...

Picture in your mind snorkeling along the base of a tall cliff that drops straight down into the sea and on into the deep blue. You look down and on that cliff below you are growing what look like ...

During a two-year survey of soft corals in the Florida Keys, scientists identified three species of octocorals that have survived heat waves. While the coral animal itself may be heat tolerant, ...

Scientists found a rare, reflective sea animal on shallow reefs and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo shows a representative coastline of Oman. Photo from Ghulam Mustafa via Unsplash Along ...