Australian scientists have sequenced the genome of the staghorn coral Acropora millepora, a major component of the Great Barrier Reef and coral reefs worldwide. This is the first animal genome project ...

Entrained circadian rhythms control many biological processes. These cyclical systems are synchronized by environmental signals but continue to free run for a considerable time when the synchronizing ...

Birds of a feather may flock together, but when it comes to corals, sometimes it helps to mix things up. ByKatherine J. Wu Monday, January 7, 2019 NOVA NextNOVA Next Even though corals occupy less ...

It’s no secret that warming ocean waters have devastated many of the world’s coral reefs. For instance, a 2016 marine heat wave killed 30 percent of coral in the Great Barrier Reef, a study published ...

Corals are adapting to global warming through an evolutionary "genetic rescue", whereby their heat-tolerant DNA is passed on to the next generation. A team of scientists from the University of Texas ...

New research confirms that drastic changes in ocean salinity from, for example, severe freshwater flooding, as recently experienced off the coast of north-east Queensland from abnormal monsoonal ...

This weekend one of the world's biggest sex events is happening under water off the north Queensland coast. The annual mass coral spawning event, set to happen over three nights from Friday, will see ...

Corals are under threat from environmental change caused by global warming — which has led to warmer, more acidic oceans — as well as from disease and other stresses. David Miller, a coral biologist ...

When the going gets hot, corals can kick out heat-sensitive strains of symbiotic algae and take on a type that can withstand higher temperatures. This could mean certain reefs will be less susceptible ...