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

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 ...

A team at the University of Washington and King Abdullah University of Science (KAUST) spotted the fish in Red Sea coral reefs. Despite its small size of less than two centimeters, the grumpy ...

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

While many of the reefs around the world are being put through the wringer by Earth’s deadliest and most-clothed species (that’s us), the diverse clusters of coral found throughout the Red Sea are ...

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 ...