Fossils discovered in a 548-million-year-old reef in Namibia reveal how the oldest known animals to have hard shells were building reefs nearly 10 million years earlier than we thought. The rest of ...

Sandwiched between two deserts, the dry landscapes of Namibia see less rainfall than any other country in sub-Saharan Africa. But things looked very different 550 million years ago. These desolate ...

Coral bleaching refers to the process by which coral lose their bright, vibrant colors and turn white. This happens when coral get stressed and “expel” the microscopic bacteria that live on them and ...

It is a remarkable survivor of an ancient aquatic world -- now a new study sheds light on how one of Earth's oldest reefs was formed. Researchers have discovered that one of these reefs -- now located ...

Get up close to animal at the Newport Aquarium's newest exhibit this weekend, a walk-through Coral Reef Tunnel.The 60,000-gallon walk-through exhibit lets you get an up-close view of the animals ...

Research describes upheaval among fish and invertebrate communities after a marine heatwave hit Australia's Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea in early 2016. The study analyzed data collected across ...

Animal reef-building evolved millions of years earlier than previously thought, researchers report today in Science. Scientists have discovered fossils indicating that animal, or metazoan, reefs date ...

Reef builders A 548-million-year-old reef in central Namibia is the earliest known ecosystem built by hard bodied animals, according to a new study. The research led by Dr Amelia Penny and Professor ...

Today, stromatolites—large communities of microbes living in watery environments—are limited to a few environments where local conditions make the water extremely salty. But for billions of years ...

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 a ...