CHICAGO — Peering over the edge of research vessel Coral Reef II as it sailed through the Florida Keys, Shedd Aquarium postdoctoral fellow Shayle Matsuda saw white. Matsuda and a group of researchers ...

Marine biologist Lauren Burk leaned down and squeezed out several ounces of a nutritious soup of amino acids, phytoplankton and brine shrimp from a pipette into a kiddie-pool size tub filled with two ...

Staghorn corals, often the first to bleach when the weather warms, are nearing extinction in the Caribbean Sea. Corpus Christi researchers flew across the country this week to pick up hundreds of ...

Most of the coral is still being monitored in land-based nurseries, such as the three Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium operates in the Keys, as expert coral reef restoration researchers continue the ...

Armed with scrub brushes, young scuba divers took to the waters of Florida’s Alligator Reef in late July to try to help corals struggling to survive 2023’s extraordinary marine heat wave. They ...

A new research paper published in Science reports the functional extinction of Acropora corals from Florida’s Coral Reef. Scientists documented catastrophic mortality of these critically endangered ...

The first major assessment of coral near busy Port Everglades in a decade has led scientists to a surprising discovery: one of the world’s busiest channels is also home to millions of corals, ...

This handout picture provided by Shedd Aquarium shows a dying thicket of Acropora cervicornis (staghorn coral) in Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida, on 11 September ...

A preliminary study of the damage done by last summer's record heat wave to Florida's coral reefs is in — and the results are not good. Barely one-fifth of the staghorn corals survived. And elkhorn ...

Since the Ice Age, elkhorn and staghorn corals off Florida’s southern coast have been stacking their skeletons into elaborate, branching homes for parrotfish, eels and octopuses. “They’ve been the ...