During its evolution, the green sea turtle (Chelonia ... adapted for crunching and pulverizing chunks of algae-coated coral. They digest the algae and excrete the coral as fine sand.

One of the greatest mysteries of modern coral reefs is how they evolved from ancient corals. A critical knowledge gap has long existed in the record of coral evolution. This evolutionary gap occurs ...

Between predator-prey and competitive relationships, it may seem that organisms are alone in the world, fighting to survive and reproduce. But many organisms have evolved cooperative strategies ...

Before Charles Darwin came up with his famous theory about evolution, he proposed a theory of how coral reefs and atolls formed. Some of the specimens he collected to support his theory are now cared ...

Coral reefs are one of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet ... Kai Kopecki, Ph.D. student in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, UC Santa Barbara “The collaboration and ...

Coral reefs are very much the rainforests of the oceans. Not only are they diverse communities, but the coral skeletons - like trees - contain potentially long term records of climate. Aa Aa Aa ...