Coral reefs form a vital part of the marine ecosystem, playing host to diverse species and supporting multiple industries, ...

The hard version of coral polyps produces limestone that is used to form layer after layer of a rigid coral skeleton. Groups ...

Incidentally, Peinemann came across the specimen while exploring coral reef fish diversity on a diving expedition in the Red Sea. At first ... knowledge of the animal kingdom and its importance ...

There are hundreds of urchin species, and they’re found in every ocean on Earth, from the intertidal zone to more than four ...

When Victoria Glynn came to Panama to study the effects of extreme ocean temperatures on coral reefs at the Smithsonian ...

Now, five years after her death, a new creature may take on the mantle of the grumpiest animal. In central Saudi Arabia, along the coast of the Red Sea, coral reefs offer food and hiding places ...

in a part of the Red Sea that is being developed as a luxury tourist resort. The colony, a feature within a reef made up of one specific type of the tiny coral-building animal known as a polyp ...

A sea-borne pandemic that wiped out sea urchin populations in the Red Sea has spread and is taking ... impacted is a well-known protector of coral reefs and the deaths put the already fragile ...