It’s more than 100 feet long, around 300 years old, made of nearly 1 billion little polyps and visible from space ...

Marine biologists found the new bacteria in the tissue of two soft coral species that live in complete darkness in the Gulf ...

Conservation status for warm-water reef-building corals was analysed for the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s ...

Scientists have discovered a gigantic coral in the Pacific, near the Solomon Islands (in western Oceania), which is about 300 ...

The world's largest coral has been found in the Solomon Islands, a remote nation made up of hundreds of small islands in the ...

As coral reefs around Guam and globally become endangered, research from the University of Guam may contribute to their ...

Global assessment shows corals facing extinction due to climate change – cutting greenhouse gases can save them ...

In 2008, the IUCN assessed 892 warm-water coral species and determined approximately one-third were at risk of extinction.

Almost half of all warm-water species of coral are threatened with extinction due to climate change, a new report said on ...

Worrying finding appears to upend long-held assumption that corals in the area are unusually resistant to rising seawater ...

Almost half of warm-water reef-building coral species are at risk of extinction, conservationists have warned after a global assessment announced at the UN climate conference. The conservation ...