What a great question!Most spiders don't swim by choice. But they sure can survive in water when they need to. From floating ...

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Off Cassis, France, 223 feet down, a forkbeard noses around a reef built by coralline algae ... The wooden hull has rotted away, but the clay jars from the ship’s cargo still litter the floor ...

Prochlorococcus, a genus of bacteria that’s key to oxygen production in the ocean, tends to disappear when faced with marine ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A new study finds that coral reef researchers come mainly from institutions in high-income countries, and that the contributions of researchers ...

New research from Simon Brandl at UT’s Marine Science Institute challenges a long-held belief about coral reefs. Coral reef in the Maldives. Credit: Jordan M. Casey/University of Texas at Austin.

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

This level of diversity is particularly impressive given that reefs cover less than 0.1 per cent of the surface area of the ocean. Coral reefs are rich in symbiotic relationships among species ...

the Great Reef Census is a global effort to collect, analyze, and share coral reef data at a scale few monitoring programs can match. Now, with the help of local organizations like Kuleana Coral ...

There might be an upside to the loss of coral reefs. Their decline would mean oceans can absorb up to 5 per cent more carbon dioxide by 2100, researchers estimate, slowing the build up of this gre ...