Marine explorers have discovered a "pristine" 3km (2-mile) coral reef at depths of 30m (100ft) off the coast of Tahiti, French Polynesia. It is one of the largest discovered at that depth ...

New study documents a severe coral bleaching event occurring in a deep coral reef that resulted in high rates of coral mortality. Unlike many bleaching events, this was driven by the presence of ...

The SS United States would become the world’s largest artificial reef if it is sunk, passing the USS Oriskany, a Naval aircraft carrier sent to the seabed in 2006 in the Florida Panhandle.

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A team of researchers including Department of Marine Sciences Professor Senjie Lin have for the first time sequenced the ...

Thanks to the baby pod, little Reef Ayling is now playing happily with his Christmas presents. But at four weeks old, when he was diagnosed with a fatal heart condition, his parents were warned he ...

He captured the Great Barrier Reef during its latest—and most devastating—mass die-off, and documented how coral off the coast of Belize had partially recovered thanks to a no-fishing zone.

The fate of a popular fish found on the Great Barrier Reef could be in jeopardy, with a new James Cook University study ...

Teeming with life, a healthy coral reef is one of the noisiest places in the ocean. Recorded using underwater microphones, this cacophony can sound to our ears remarkably like frying bacon. Listen for ...

And yet, with ocean temperatures rising, coral reefs are disappearing at an alarming rate. Learn more about the Coral Reef Rescue Initiative, a partnership to safeguard globally significant coral ...

Some three dozen species spend at least part of the year there—including these northern right whale dolphins, which typically swim in pods of a hundred ... Mark Eakin, coral reef watch ...

Among the biggest and best-known are the reef systems of the Great Barrier Reef of Australia, which is around 2,300 kilometres long. The most biologically diverse reefs in the world can be found in a ...