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

Florida’s devastated coral reefs can’t seem to catch a break. The marine heat wave of 2023, combined with an epidemic of ...

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

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.

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.

Tropical coral reefs encrust the coastlines of islands and continents near Earth’s equator but this zone, which has offered ...

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.

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 ...

Not everything dies in a mass extinction. Sea life recovered in different and surprising ways after the asteroid strike 66 ...