A heart cockle shell has been found to let in light through a design that resembles fiber optic cables. This could inspire everything from helping coral survive to designing new camera lenses.

Heart cockles use unique shell structures to channel sunlight for algae, filtering harmful UV rays and aiding photosynthesis.

Some hard corals can look a bit like rock, but they are living things closely related to jellyfish and sea anemones. Together, all the polyps create a giant living organism made up of a single species ...

A Shell-led joint venture has confirmed the first exploration discovery in the UK North Sea this year with the Selene gas prospect, and should be well placed to progress towards field development ...

The "mega" coral is 112-feet wide, 105-feet long and 18-feet high, making it larger than a blue whale, the world's largest animal.

It’s more than 100 feet long, around 300 years old, made of nearly 1 billion little polyps and visible from space ...

SCTLD is a highly lethal disease in corals that was first spotted in 2014. According to NOAA, it affects over 20 coral ...

A cleaning station for turtles in the waters off the US Virgin Islands recently turned up three fish species that weren’t ...

A research team has discovered two remarkable species of bacteria in the tissue of two deep-sea corals from the Gulf of Mexico. These previously unknown symbionts of the corals have an extremely small ...

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It’s estimated that 1.1 billion people live within 30 miles of seagrass ecosystems; therefore, the urban greening of seagrass ...

Ukraine mortar shell output at 'millions' per year Shell production stymied by global explosives shortage Missile programme also held back by supply chains Russia has far bigger military ...