Corals

Taryn Foster believes Australia’s dying coral reefs can still be rescued—if she can speed up efforts to save them. For years, biologists like her have been…

Washington, November 26 Using a remote-controlled submarine, my colleagues and I discovered five new…

Stephen Palumbi, a scientist at Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station, is on the hunt for what he calls “super reefs.” These are regions of the ocean…

In a discovery that challenges over a century of evolutionary conventional wisdom, corals have been shown to pass somatic mutations -- changes to the DNA…

Coral reefs hide within them several secrets that are difficult for scientists to record and study. Experts must do rigorous analyses to determine reef…

Charles Darwin, the British naturalist who championed the theory of evolution, noted that corals form far-reaching structures, largely made of limestone,…