These corals—species with rigid skeletons, such as elkhorn and brain corals—are the architects ... such as buffering coastlines and providing habitat for one-fourth of all marine species.

The new city’s roads and water canals were inspired by the grid pattern of a brain ... new habitat for the marine ecosystem it is built on rather than destroying it. New artificial coral banks ...

Large pieces of brain coral are washing ashore on Texas beaches, likely due to storms or other underwater disturbances. Brain coral, a slow-growing hard coral, forms important reef habitats in the ...

The corals all received Endangered Species Act listings in 2014 but not the critical habitat designation the law requires. Corals worldwide are now experiencing dramatic declines due to climate change ...

The Pacific Fishery Management Council will consider Thursday choosing among several areas off Monterey Bay to protect in order to restore and preserve deep-sea corals that create habitat for sea ...

Scientists have found the world’s largest-known habitat of deep-sea corals off the Southeast coast and a significant portion lies just 90 miles offshore from Georgia. The nearly continuous ...

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Temple University biology professor Erik Cordes about the discovery of the world's largest known deep-sea coral habitat. Now we want to take you to the bottom of the ...