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

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

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

In 2011, an elderly English woman was on holiday in her house in France when she came across two enormous earthworms, at least 15in in length. Wondering who could be the best authority on these ...

The growing demand for nickel for electric cars and clean energy is threatening tropical forests and coral reefs.

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

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

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), ...

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

Researchers have developed an autonomous system for seeking out and mapping hotspots of biodiversity on coral reefs with ...

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 ...

For decades, coral reefs throughout the Caribbean have been suffering from disease, pollution, overfishing and rising sea temperatures, yet most have continued to grow – until now. In 2023 and 2024, ...