Per the study, coral reefs face the most intense threats of any ecosystem due to climate change, poor water quality and coastal development, but although climate change presents a long-term threat to ...

Land-dwelling rats are upending life for coral reef fish When rats invade tropical islands, they can trigger a chain reaction that reverberates all the way to coral reefs, researchers say February ...

The reefs were built by tiny, filter-feeding animals called Cloudina that lived on shallow equatorial seabeds during the Ediacaran Period, which ended 541 million years ago.

University of Edinburgh. (2014, June 26). Animals built reefs 550 million years ago, fossil study finds. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2014 / 06 ...

Most coral reef animals spend the early part of their lives as tiny larvae floating in the water. This larval period can last from a few days to several weeks, moving a few metres to hundreds of ...

NE Australian marine heatwave shakes up coral reef animal populations. University of Tasmania. Journal Nature DOI 10.1038/s41586-018-0359-9 ...

NE Australian marine heatwave shakes up coral reef animal populations. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2018 / 07 / 180726085955.htm ...

The aquarium’s newest residents — a green sea turtle, flashlight fish and the seabird Animal Ambassador, Sula the red-footed booby — were eager to show themselves off to visitors.

Researchers have discovered that one of these reefs – now located on dry land in Namibia – was built almost 550 million years ago, by the first animals to have hard shells.