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 ...

A university student has discovered six new species of soft coral in the Tamar River estuary of northern Tasmania. Megan Dykman set out to study the river's ecosystem - which includes soft coral reefs ...

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 ...

New research shows cauliflower soft coral may become extinct in the next decade unless we urgently protect and restore it. When we think of Australia’s threatened corals, the Great Barrier Reef ...

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 ...

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.

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, ...

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, ...