At least one scientist has declared them a "global emergency." Scientists make groundbreaking discovery about tiny but ...

WHAT if we could build artificial coral reefs to filter microplastics from the sea? That’s a possibility put forward by ...

An underwater investigation of coral bleaching in the South Pacific By Justin Worland | Photographs by XL Catlin Seaview Survey Richard Vevers has traveled the globe to photograph coral reefs ...

Coral reefs are one of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet. What are the abiotic and biotic interactions that structure this diverse ecosystem? Corals are members of the phylum Cnidaria, a ...

"Coral has three main anatomical parts: the surface mucus, the outside of the coral body; the tissue, which is the inner parts of the coral; and the skeleton, the hard deposits of calcium ...

The researchers observed that the crabs fed on the mucus but did not harm the coral. But they also found that they fed on nearby seaweed, typically the vectors for infectious bacteria, which led ...

University of Waterloo researchers have pinpointed for the first time how microplastics accumulate in coral reefs, a key step to understanding how to protect vulnerable ecosystems. A team at ...

The variety of life found on coral reefs attracts some of the ocean’s deadliest predators ... The clownfish has a protective coating of mucus allowing it to take refuge in the stinging tentacles of ...

But why would crabs be attracted to coral wounds in the first place? Perhaps they're lured by nutritious mucus that corals release when they're injured, the authors suggested. "Corals probably ...

The researchers measured and analyzed mucus samples from both anemonefish and non-symbiotic damselfish species, using advanced techniques to separate and analyze the components of a mixture ...