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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

"It has gone deep, it's not just the top of the reef that is bleaching. Many different species of coral are bleaching." Branching through shallow waters along Australia's western coast, 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 ...