Wharton's article I was engaged in writing a paper on coral formations, based upon a study of living corals at Diego Garcia, and on a consideration of the great submerged atolls known as the Great ...

Scientists discovered that crabs eat young crown-of-thorns starfish, reducing their population before they damage coral reefs ...

"These guys are the best trained divers in the world. We take their skills that they learn from the military, repurpose them for conservation work … from coral restoration to marine debris cleanup to ...

With too few tritons on the reef, crown-of-thorns starfish populations can explode, jeopardizing the living coral that makes up reefs. Covered with long, venomous spikes, the crown-of-thorns ...

"So, you take out coral reefs and a third to a quarter of ... 2,300km long -- roughly the length of Italy -- and is the only living organism that can be seen from space. When Veron, a former ...

Walking coral: Complex phototactic mobility in the free-living coral Cycloseris cyclolites Walking coral: Complex phototactic mobility in the free-living coral Cycloseris cyclolites ...

This subaquatic treasure (known as the first undersea park in the U.S.) features 70 nautical square miles of sparkling turquoise waters and the shallow-water living coral reefs of the Florida Keys ...

But scientists have observed a free-living mushroom coral, Cycloseris cyclolites, actively “walking” toward blue light waves in a way that’s reminiscent of the pulsed swimming motion of ...

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FIORE: These guys are the best-trained divers in the world. We take their skills that they learned from the military, repurpose them for conservation work in all these projects, ranging from coral ...

Crab behavior suggestive of wound-tending may improve coral tolerance to heat waves. For certain vulnerable corals, help is in the claws of a crab. Reporting in Proceedings Biological Sciences ...

WHAT if we could build artificial coral reefs to filter microplastics from the sea? That’s a possibility put forward by engineers in Canada who have been looking at how living reefs are becoming ...