Serpulid worms can create colonies of hundreds of millions; to a casual observer, these colorful colonies look like fields of flowers in bloom. The spent tubes function similarly to coral reefs ...

After reproduction, the worms burst and die ... leading to fewer — or no — instances of new, small corals on the reef. Along with artificial light, Shlesinger believes there could be other ...

The bristle worm originally comes from the Bay of Naples ... leading to fewer — or no — instances of new, small corals on the reef. Along with artificial light, Shlesinger believes there ...

After reproduction, the worms burst and die ... leading to fewer — or no — instances of new, small corals on the reef. Along with artificial light, Shlesinger believes there could be other ...

"These Northern Hemisphere reefs have suffered coral bleaching as a result of climate ... anemones, marine worms, crustaceans, and other species. No other World Heritage property contains such ...

Florida's coral reef — the world's third-largest — experienced ... sharks and sea turtles waft through and worms that look like Christmas trees pop in and out of corals. Andy Lewis, a Houston ...

During the dive, some “long white tentacles” stretching out from under the coral reef “really caught my eye,” she said. Hutchings knew the tentacles belonged to a marine worm and that ...

Scientists first acclimated the babies to saltwater tanks before handing over 300 corals each to organizations on the ...

Just a few meters beneath the clear, blue waters of Okinawa, reef-building corals known as Scleractinia have quietly lived ...

SNAP-X releases scents that attract larvae to help sustain coral reefs in the ocean, according to UCSD's Scripps Institution of Oceanography ...

Watch moreFrom killer grass to flesh-eating worms: The invasion beneath your ... the International Coral Reef Initiative, a global conservation partnership, said in a statement Wednesday.

Ali Rogin (voice-over): If coral reefs die, so could nearly a quarter of all sea life, which feed millions and sustain industries from fishing tourism. But the good news is that corals are ...