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 ...

They don't have so many diverse species and they don't flourish as they once did.' For example, 'after a coral bleaching event, certain kinds of branching coral can grow back prolifically while other ...

Over the 234 displays that were seen, the authors found the cuttlefish had four main hunting displays that they named leaf, ...

Unprecedented' mass bleaching drains life from Australian reef An "unprecedented" mass bleaching event has been recorded off Australia's western coast, scientists said Wednesday, turning huge chunks ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a dazzling array of life, delicate, fan-like hydrocorals in pink, yellow, orange and purple shimmer slightly in the ocean current, among them growing magenta, white and salmon-colored, ...