Sacoglossan sea slugs, discreet inhabitants of coral reefs, hide an astonishing secret. Unlike other animals, they can "steal ...

Many fish find solace in the coral reef, but Bartlett's anthias travel in large groups, finding shelter in the branches of coral. Found in the Western Pacific Ocean, all anthias fish start out as ...

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.

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.

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 ...

Starfish have eyes—one on the end of each of their arms—but what they do with them was anyone's guess.. Starfish have historically been thought of as simple animals. Since their eyes are also ...

At the edge of a desert in southern Namibia, scientists have found the remains of the oldest known animal reef system in the world. The reef was constructed 548 million years ago in what was once ...

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