Coral reefs form a vital part of the marine ecosystem, playing host to diverse species and supporting multiple industries, ...

Throughout the ruins, archaeologists have found vivid bits of red coral, likely handpicked by free divers along the rocky coastline. In a laboratory of the Empúries branch of the Archaeology ...

But the wildly colorful coral reefs in the waters outside the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el ... the corals’ limestone branches protect coasts from storms, and they provide a food source ...

As one jeweler in Torre del Greco said, “If coral disappears, we’re all closing down.” By Laura Rysman TORRE DEL GRECO, Italy — In the Vesuvius-shadowed outskirts of Naples, between the ...

The Romans hung coral branches around children’s necks to stave off danger, and the Egyptians decorated pharaohs’ tombs with them. Early Christians believed red coral symbolized the blood of ...

In the Red Sea off the coast of Egypt ... which are more compact and harder in texture than the soft gorgonian coral branches – the dolphins tended to push an isolated body part in and twist ...

The red coral kukri (Oligodon kheriensis) is endemic to a small region of the Himalayan tracts of northern India and Nepal; the snake species was first spotted in Uttar Pradesh in India in 1936.