Warm-water coral reefs are the ... filled with one-celled calcifying plants called coccolithophores, whose seasonal blooms turn thousands of square miles of ocean a milky hue.

In an office wing of the Natural History Museum in London, two researchers slide open a plain storage cupboard door to reveal a hidden treasure: shelves of fossilised corals, up to 30 million years ...

In Florida, swaths of coral paint a colorful landscape across the ocean floor and serve a key role ... city to more than 7,000 other marine plants and animals, survived prehistoric mass ...

This relationship between the zooxanthellae and the coral polyps is an excellent example of a mutually beneficial relationship, also known as symbiosis. Although they occupy less than 0.1% of the ...

Researchers have discovered inorganic nanostructures surrounding deep-ocean hydrothermal vents that are strikingly similar to molecules that make life as we know it possible. These nanostructures are ...

Starting in the tropical coral reefs ... as all the plants on land and lie at the base of marine food chains everywhere. Where the plankton thrive, fish thrive too, and ocean travellers will ...

The Wasp was meant to shore up the losses from Pearl Harbor and the battles at Midway and the Coral Sea before leaving ...

Coral reefs, which comprise only about 0.5 per cent of the ocean floor, are complex three-dimensional ... which have a greater diversity of animal and plant life than rainforests, circulate ...

Carbon, a chemical element, is found in all organic matter on Earth, from the plants and animals alive ... part of the food chain or sinks to the ocean floor. Carbon is stored At the bottom ...

A team of marine biologists had done everything they could to set the stage for something akin to a romantic evening for a tank full of coral ... as oases on the ocean floor is their relationship ...

There are more than 50 species of snakes that live in the seas. Some are super venomous and they can zip through the water ...

Sue Kim’s documentary following South Korea’s free-diving haenyeo, beset by generational shifts and climate change, is as ...