The ocean covers nearly three-quarters of our planet but scientists say we have barely scratched the surface of what lives in ...

Kahaluʻu Beach Park will be temporarily closed for nine days in May to give the cauliflower coral colonies time to recover.

Corals are among the most fascinating and essential living organisms on our planet. These complex creatures are the ...

Spawning fish are attractive for fishermen. High catch rates can generally be expected during spawning times at specific locations. However, these sites are also very important for the conservation of ...

Watch breathtaking underwater footage off the Panama coast, where coral reefs reproduce in a flurry of carefully-timed action. Read more at http://www.smithsonianmag ...

Now, to keep Florida’s reef alive, scientists have to breed corals almost entirely in labs on land, where the water is clean and comfortably warm. Margaret Miller, a coral reproductive biologist, says ...

It was the seventh night after the August full moon, the peak spawning window predicted for the mountainous star coral. We loaded the boat and headed out to a coral reef near Summerland Key, Florida, ...

Coral spawning lasts mere minutes and occurs just once annually per colony, forcing the team to conduct hundreds of night ...

AMAMI, Kagoshima Prefecture--The coral spawning season has started off Amami-Oshima island, releasing a blizzard of slow-drifting pink particles that made the ocean look like a starry sky.

Cryopreservation technology preserves genetic coral diversity over decades and even centuries at Mote's Sarasota facility.

With the help of remote underwater video cameras, an international team of scientists has analyzed the spawning aggregation dynamics of the black-saddled coral grouper (Plectropomus laevis ...