In fact, all our favorite marine animals – sharks and dolphins, turtles and rays, and all those pretty colored fish in our reefs – are either surface or upper sea level dwelling animals. And so, when ...

A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...

Coral reefs are marine structures created by calcifying coral animals and their algal ... by factors including ocean acidification, global warming and sea level rise.

Near an island in the South Pacific Ocean, a bright red sea creature ... around the coral reef. Maybe it was its vibrant ...

The ocean is home to 80% of all animal life on Planet Earth ... waters of the tropics provide the perfect conditions for coral reefs – the most diverse habitat on the planet.

Photo from Getty Images / iStockphoto Near an island in the South Pacific Ocean, a bright red sea ... coral reef. Maybe it was its vibrant coloring or its spiny body, but something about the ...

As Earth is an oasis of life in infinite space, so the islands of Palau form a living Eden surrounded by a desert of ocean ... of life on the coral reef, where a tiny animal creates the largest ...

The sound is so loud, the snapping shrimp competes with much larger creatures, such as the blue whale, to be the loudest animal in the ocean ... could hear on coral reefs around the world, with ...

The melting of ice both on land and in the sea also affects the ocean, causing more sea-level rise and reducing the salinity ... Warming ocean temperatures can lead to coral bleaching - the sudden die ...