Reef fish in different oceans often develop similar color patterns because evolution explores the same set of biological ...

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In a lab at the University of Miami, there are tanks of knobby, tan-colored corals from Florida, Honduras and the Cayman Islands. They've been drafted into a sort of coral Olympics, as scientists look ...

This summer, coral researchers from around the world gathered to share their latest findings at a conference devoted to reef science, conservation and management. One question that looms large in the ...

Why does a Caribbean angelfish sometimes resemble its Indo-Pacific cousin, even though they have never lived in the same ...

Coral reefs are teeming with life: they are home to over a third of all marine animal and plant species on Earth, despite covering less than one percent of the ocean floor. However, this immense ...

Scientists mapped the largest deep-sea coral reef, which stretches over millions of acres off the Atlantic from Florida to South Carolina and is bigger than Vermont, according to the news release. "It ...

This story was co-published with Grist as part of their Proof of Concept video series profiling the science and scientists behind some of the environment’s most surprising research. While the Gulf of ...

NHA TRANG, Vietnam — The gentle waves off the coast of central Vietnam’s Nha Trang obscure an open secret: The life-giving coral reefs below are dying. The waters are eerily devoid of fish. The bounty ...

MIAMI-- Florida's coral reefs hit a critical point this summer as record ocean heat led to widespread coral bleaching and were blamed for destroying coral that had been part of a seven-year reef ...