The back reef includes the shallow lagoon between the shore and coral reef. This habitat includes small patches of corals, sea grass beds, and sand plains. The back reef is often warmer because of ...

23, 2024 — The new mammal lived in Colorado 70 to 75 million years ago -- a time when a vast inland sea covered large portions ... Researchers Use the Sounds of Healthy Coral Reefs to Encourage ...

One Tree, which actually has several hundred trees, is shaped like a boomerang, with two arms that stretch out into the Coral Sea. In the crook of the boomerang there's a small research station ...

It tells of a time 125,000 years ago, when a modest increase in Earth’s temperatures caused ice sheets to melt and global sea levels to surge. The height of the coral — which can grow only ...

A German-American research team has discovered two highly unusual bacterial species in the tissue of two deep-sea corals from ...

The USS Lexington was found 3km (2 miles) underwater in the Coral Sea, about 800km off Australia's east coast. The ship was lost in the Battle of the Coral Sea, fought with Japan from 4-8 May 1942.

The Kuroshio is a strong western boundary current in the North Pacific. It transports warm, saltier waters from low to middle ...

the framework of the coral reef is filled with sediment and cemented with calcite and aragonite. If sea level changes, the reefs become exposed to corrosive rainwater that dissolves the unstable ...

Coral colonies are habitats and breeding grounds for many marine species, including sharks, manatees, dugongs, fish, sea ...

The consequences of losing coral reefs are catastrophic for the oceans. There’s a reason scientists describe reefs as the rainforests of the sea. Reefs occupy just 1% of the world’s marine ...

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 ...

Unlike many ... Plenty More Fish in the Sea? Environmental Protections Account for Around 10 Percent of Fish Stocks on Coral Reefs Oct. 7, 2024 — New research shows that international ...