Animal life, emerging nearly 600 million years ago, showcases incredible diversity and unique traits. Unlike plants, animals ...

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This is the fourth global coral bleaching event ever recorded, and the second in the last decade, according to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). “As the oceans ...

Harmful bleaching of the world’s coral has grown to include 84% of the ocean’s reefs in the most intense event of its kind in recorded history, the International Coral Reef Initiative ...

The third rock from the Sun—and to this day, the only one with known intelligent life—there are plenty of fun Earth facts that we all ... living structures are coral reefs.

You might be hearing about the gulf off the coast of the U.S. and Mexico. Here's what to know about the body of water the size of Alaska.

The 'Hot Tub of Despair,' ancient salt deposits and World War II wreckage Names given to the gulf have little bearing on the strange happenings beneath its surface, from fatal pools to coral habitats.

But scientists have observed a free-living mushroom coral, Cycloseris cyclolites, actively “walking” toward blue light waves in a way that’s reminiscent of the pulsed swimming motion of ...