Their distinctive shape, which resembles a rod studded with branching outgrowths at regular intervals, enables them to ...

Touch the branches of Leptogorgia chilensis, a soft coral found along the Pacific coast from California to Chile, and its ...

Soft corals produce diterpenoids, chemicals that could be used to treat human disease. Now, scientists have identified the genes that make these important chemicals, opening the door to creating a ...

Two research teams have discovered independently that soft corals make a class of molecules called terpenes. Scientists had previously believed that these natural products were made by symbiotic ...

A school of fish swim above a staghorn (Acropora cervicornis) coral colony as it grows on the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Cairns, Australia SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian scientists have come ...

The corals that are seeing the worst of it are a cylindrical-looking branching coral called Briareum abestinum, commonly ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. - Soft corals at three sites in the U.S. Virgin Islands were able to recover from the destructive effects of nearly back-to-back Category 5 storms in 2017, but the story of these ...

The marine heat wave that gripped Florida in 2023 was hotter than anything the state has seen in 150 years, and claimed at ...

From pit vipers to funnel web spiders, living creatures continue to prove a rich source of medicines with life-saving potential, but some are more forthcoming than others with their powerful compounds ...

On occasion, it is of vital importance to consider how little we know about the spinning rock we all live on. Take coral reefs, for example. Given how much they've been studied, you'd think we've ...

Soft corals at three sites in the U.S. Virgin Islands were able to recover from the destructive effects of nearly back-to-back Category 5 storms in 2017, but the story of these apparently hardy ...

For many, diving in a coral reef is a life-changing experience, and these destinations are sure to provide an otherwordly view that will make an impact.