A record 2023 heat wave all but eradicated two species of coral that historically served as the backbone of Florida's reefs, ...

This agatized coral is more than just a rock it’s a window into Earth’s ancient past. Formed over 20 million years, the coral’s structure was slowly replaced with silica, creating dazzling agate ...

While it’s not helping fly the Millennium Falcon, marine biologists have discovered a new type of deep-sea coral in the western Pacific Ocean that bears a striking similarity to a certain beloved Star ...

The ring-shaped coral islands known as atolls, like this one in the Maldives Islands in the Indian Ocean, may trace their formation to sea levels repeatedly rising and falling over hundreds of ...

It's not just dried up lakes and river valleys that suggest the action of liquid water on the Martian surface, say planetary geologists. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has been sending images of the ...

A coral species believed to be extinct, Rhizopsammia wellingtoni, believed to be extinct for 24 years was recently ...

Scientists use data from ancient coral to build a record of temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean over the last millennium. The data question previous links between volcanic eruptions and El Niño ...

A large white coral reef containing important species and fossil traces has been discovered at a depth of more than 500 metres in the Gulf of ...