Coral reefs make up less than 1% of ocean habitat but are home to at least 25% of marine species. These incredibly biodiverse ...

Corals may look still, but they follow a daily sleep cycle. New research shows why corals rest at night while their microbes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ORLANDO, Fla. – Simulated moonlight. Perfect temperatures. A hum of bubbling saltwater. A team of marine biologists had done ...

Corals have been under a lot of stress lately. These marine invertebrates—relatives of jellyfish—are pretty picky when it comes to temperature. That’s why rising ocean temperatures over the past few ...

KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. -- A team of scientists from the University of Miami, the Florida Aquarium and Tela Marine in Honduras is working together to transplant crossbred coral fragments onto a reef off ...

Scientists are transplanting crossbred coral fragments onto a Miami reef, devastated by bleaching two years ago. This collaborative effort by the University of Miami, the Florida Aquarium, and ...

O cean heat is killing corals at such high rates that in April scientists declared Earth was in its fourth global bleaching event—the second in a decade. The announcement came from the U.S. National ...

A preliminary study of the damage done by last summer's record heat wave to Florida's coral reefs is in — and the results are not good. Barely one-fifth of the staghorn corals survived. And elkhorn ...