The team of scientists from James Cook University, University of Western Australia and Edith Cowan University surveyed coral reefs in the West Australian Houtman Abrolhos group of islands (HAI), ...

Deep-water expeditions in the Coral Sea continue to reveal how little of the ocean’s biodiversity has actually been ...

Coral reefs may be more connected than scientists thought, with coral larvae drifting vast distances to spread genetic ...

The extraordinary discoveries were made over 13 ocean expeditions to some of the planet’s most extreme environments.

World’s largest mission to accelerate species discovery reveals extraordinary new life forms from some of Earth’s most ...

Found near Australia, Solenostomus snuffleupagus is a shaggy swimmer that closely resembles Mr. Snuffleupagus from Sesame ...

Some ocean animals are so weird that even marine biologists stop and gawk when they pop up on camera. One resembles a ...

Corals are in fact three things in one: something of an animal, something of a plant, and something of a stone. They make ...

Coral reefs, worth an estimated $9.8 trillion a year to humanity, are in far worse shape than previously realized. A massive international study found that during the 2014–2017 global marine heatwave, ...

Beneath the beauty of coral reefs lies a hidden universe of microbes unlike anything scientists expected. Each coral species supports its own specialized microbial partners, many of which have never ...

Austin Bowden-Kerby, a pioneer in coral reef conservation, spends many of his days gardening corals for reefs around Fiji and the Pacific. He grows corals in ocean nurseries. Once they're healthy ...

When scientists set sail to explore the deep sea, they knew they would come face to face with a few unfamiliar creatures. What they did not know was just how many. After months of sorting, marine ...