A study in the journal Bulletin of Marine Science describes a new, blood-red species of octocoral found in Panama. The species in the genus Thesea was discovered in the threatened low-light reef ...

On occasion, it is of vital importance to consider how little we know about the spinning rock we all live on. Take coral reefs, for example. Given how much they've been studied, you'd think we've ...

What animal can live to be thousands of years old, is often mistaken for a plant, tolerates extreme conditions in cold, dark oceans to 3000 meters (almost 10,000 feet) below the surface and may die ...

A soft coral, commonly found in the Indo-Pacific region and off the southern Israeli Red Sea coast, has been identified for the first time in the Eastern Mediterranean, in a possible further ...

An invasive soft coral has been spotted in Hawaii and Puerto Rico and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration is warning Florida to start preparing. Xenia pulse corals are soft corals that ...

During a two-year survey of soft corals in the Florida Keys, scientists identified three species of octocorals that have survived heat waves. While the coral animal itself may be heat tolerant, ...

Bright pink with feathery white tentacles that trawl the passing current for food, this beautiful species of soft coral is little understood and has only recently been studied by science.

CHENNAI: Even as efforts are on to restore the coral reefs along the country’s coastal waters, native marine ecology is facing a new threat in the form of alien soft corals. “Invasive alien species ...

Another new coral found in Panama's Coiba National Park, a UNESCO National Heritage Site, the location of the Smithsonian's newest research site. A study in the journal Bulletin of Marine Science ...

Scleractinian corals, or hard corals, have been disappearing globally over the past four decades, a result of climate change, pollution, unsustainable coastal development and overfishing. However, ...