Time-lapse video shows how a mushroom coral polyp pulses and inflates, flinging its soft body into micro-hops to slowly move itself to a new location.

Food, music and culture have made the Italian southern city of Naples famous around the globe. But there’s another Neapolitan ...

Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Corals aren’t necessarily known for their fancy footwork — or even having feet. But scientists have ...

Coral reefs are marine structures created by calcifying coral animals and their algal symbionts. Coral reef ecosystems are generally high in biodiversity, most often found in shallow tropical seas ...

This damaging process ultimately weakens the corals, leaving them vulnerable to disease and potential death. The underlying cause is the ongoing combustion of planet-heating fossil fuels, which is ...

Record ocean heat has taken a devastating toll on one of the world’s greatest natural wonders, with coral bleaching on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef reaching “catastrophic” levels, a new ...

He said: "Pterosaur bones are very delicate -- so finding fossils where another animal has clearly taken a bite is exceptionally uncommon. This specimen being a juvenile makes it even more rare." ...

The connection between Trump’s rise and policy choices and American business leaders is especially true for the top fossil fuel billionaires, says the Climate Accountability Research Project (CARP).

With time-lapse video, scientists show how tiny mushroom corals can move themselves to influence their fate. Trilobites With time-lapse video, scientists show how tiny mushroom corals can move ...

The fossil was unearthed in the 1950s in a former lignite mining area in the Geiseltal in Germany. It was initially misclassified and thus led a shadowy existence until its rediscovery.

Research led by the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at Ohio University has found evidence of hominin activity at a Romanian fossil site dating to at least 1.95 million years ago.