Ancient Temperature Triggers Reveal How It All Began It demonstrates that the onset of reef growth on the outer shelf was ...

Researchers Jessica Hankins discovered that despite the rise in ocean acidity since the Industrial Revolution, corals have continued to form their hard calcium carbonate skeletons using a ...

The Great Barrier Reef stretches for 1,429 miles just off Australia's northeastern coast. Auscape/Universal Images Group via Getty Image Tropical reefs might look like inanimate rock, but these ...

Thanks to corals’ deep-sea cousins, even the most extreme environmental changes—global warming or sudden, severe variations ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Although tropical reefs might look like inanimate rock, these colorful seascapes are built by tiny jellyfish-like animals called corals. While adult corals build solid structures ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Noam Vogt-Vincent, University of Hawaii (THE CONVERSATION) Tropical reefs might look ...