For certain vulnerable corals, help is in the claws of a crab. Reporting in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, researchers found that a species of branching coral benefitted ...

Alarming levels of coral bleaching have been recorded off Australia's western coast, scientists said on Wednesday, turning ...

Coral surveyor Margaux Hein swims over a field of recently dead branching corals, northern Great BarrierReef, October 2016. Credit: Greg Torda, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies The ...

A critical issue in reef conservation efforts is the slow rate at which corals can recover from damage. Although some branching corals can grow rapidly, most grow only a few centimeters annually ...

During this time, the temperatures remained high. Alex told me that around 90% of the branching corals at Lizard Island died. Even Percy’s “kitchen” – a boulder coral where the ingenious ...

Restoration projects heavily favour quick-growing branching corals. The delicate branches of these corals are more susceptible to becoming fragments of opportunity, and are also easier to ...

“It has gone deep, it’s not just the top of the reef that is bleaching. Many different species of coral are bleaching.” ...

As branching coral look-alikes, the cuttlefish splayed out their arms and displayed dark mottles to blend in with staghorn coral. Sometimes, they even reached out one pair of arms toward their prey.

The team documented crabs of the species Cyclodius ungulatus feeding along the margins of tissue loss in the branching coral species Acropora aspera. Video by Julianna Renzi Disclaimer ...

Many different species of coral are bleaching." Branching through shallow waters along Australia's western coast, the 300-kilometer (185-mile) Ningaloo Reef is one of the largest "fringing reefs ...