Sitting on a bed of neon-green Brain Coral, this bright orange and yellow brittlestar is positively magical with its spiny long arms that help it move along corals and the seabed.

Large pieces of brain coral are washing ashore on Texas beaches, likely due to storms or other underwater disturbances. Brain coral, a slow-growing hard coral, forms important reef habitats in the ...

Since 2014, the stony coral disease has affected over 96,000 acres of reef in Florida, sickening the corals and killing them off within months after it eats away at their tissue. It also spread to ...

Brain coral, left, and endangered elkhorn coral on a reef near Tela, Honduras, grow in water where temperatures hover around 88 degrees. “Usually we associate reefs with crystal clear water and ...