When plant species go extinct, it can have a ripple effect on entire ecosystems. ... The coral reef absorbs some of the energy from the waves before they reach the shore.

If just these 10 species went extinct, we'd be in serious hot water. 10. Springtails. ... with several species already on the ...

A team of scientists, including two from San Francisco's California Academy of Sciences, just rediscovered a species of coral ...

The Endangered Species Act has helped save hundreds of species from extinction. But climate change presents a new threat to endangered species and wildlife officials working to protect them.

Over the past 500 years, 14 ocean species have gone extinct, another 70 could disappear. Subscribe ... In the past three decades, about 50% of coral reefs around the world have died.

More than half of known species of coral reef sharks and rays are threatened with ... 24 species were “endangered,” which indicates population reduction of 50-70% in the past three ...

The ancient reefs were comprised of now-extinct coral species called Rugosa and Tabulata coral, McCoy said. The type of coral that makes up today's reefs is called "Scleractinia coral," and it did ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - An environmental group filed a lawsuit Monday accusing the U.S. government of failing to protect 12 endangered coral species across the Caribbean and the Pacific Ocean that ...

It also indicated that all five species would qualify as endangered on the IUCN Red List. ... Widespread diversity deficits of coral reef sharks and rays. Science, 380(6650), 1155-1160. doi: ...