British marine biologist and photographer Richard Smith focuses his work on the ocean’s tiniest and weirdest creatures.

The Great Barrier Reef in Australia and the Red Sea in Egypt are world-famous for their magnificent coral landscapes. Both ...

Rising mountain peaks and sharp rock formations cover the ocean floor, with corals, sponges, fish, and tons of sea creatures ...

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For the first time in Europe, coral researchers have successfully fertilised coral eggs using frozen and thawed sperm.

Coral Gardeners also recently posted photos of a similar nursery near nearby ... is a boon to the fish and other sea creatures that rely on these reefs. The Instagram page’s followers loved ...

the coral is “not safe from global warming and other human threats,” says Enric Sala, a National Geographic explorer in residence and founder of the Pristine Seas initiative, in a statement.

Tropical rainforests and coral reefs are both highly complex ecosystems that are rich in biodiversity. Coral reefs are often described as underwater rainforests. -- Maui Ocean Center photo ...

The ornately colored sea anemone (uh-NEM-uh-nee) is named after the equally flashy terrestrial anemone flower. A close relative of coral and jellyfish, anemones are stinging polyps that spend most ...

Horiguchi has taken pictures of coral in the same area of ... to maintain the revived coral as healthy as possible.” Coral in the sea off the Yaeyama district, which includes Ishigakijima ...

Because the fish are used to human presence, many visitors also liked getting such a close-up view of the sea life – though others found this a bit unnatural. To reach the Coral Gardens ...

Most corals are colonial animals - superorganisms comprising lots of smaller organisms - made up of multitudes sea anemone-like coral polyps. In the reef-building "hard corals", the polyps sit in ...