The development of light-responsive materials has captured scientific attention and advanced the development of wirelessly driven terrestrial soft robots. Marine organisms trigger inspiration to ...

On occasion, it is of vital importance to consider how little we know about the spinning rock we all live on. Take coral reefs, for example. Given how much they've been studied, you'd think we've ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (WSVN) — Scientists are sounding the alarm about an aggressive species of coral that has been spotted in the Caribbean and, they fear, is already in Florida. Paul Evans, a research ...

This summer, coral researchers from around the world gathered to share their latest findings at a conference devoted to reef science, conservation and management. One question that looms large in the ...

Using an innovative new approach to sampling corals, researchers are now able to create maps of coral biochemistry that reveal with unprecedented detail the distribution of compounds that are integral ...

Scientists found a rare, reflective sea animal on shallow reefs and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo shows a representative coastline of Oman. Photo from Ghulam Mustafa via Unsplash Along ...

Meryl Larkin receives funding from the NSW Department of Primary Industries, Southern Cross University’s National Marine Science Centre and Marine Ecology Research Centre, and the Australian ...

The soft-bodied sea anemone does not produce reef-forming rocky skeletons on its own, but was induced to produce skeleton creating proteins, turning it into a good model system for studying coral ...

This browser does not support the video element. On a barrier island off the coast of Florida, Ian Enochs runs a high-tech “coral gym” where he trains the colorful invertebrates to survive. Enochs and ...

An international team of scientists have completed the world’s second and largest survey of soft corals, using more than 4,400 museum specimens collected over the past two decades. Their results ...