Upon completion of this unit students should be able to: Be familiar with the formation and occurrence of a barrier reef, fringing reef, atoll, patch reef and deep water or cold water reef. Discuss ...

Focus: Studying fossil corals to understand the effect of past environmental changes on the animals and help predict their response to ongoing and future changes We are studying fossil corals to ...

Will modern coral reefs go extinct? The answer is uncertain, but some of their ancient counterparts managed to dodge a bullet ...

"Photosymbiosis could explain why ancient reefs were highly productive and enormous in size despite the nutrient-poor environment," says Alfredo Martínez-García. The study serves as the start ...

Marine explorers have discovered a "pristine" 3km (2-mile) coral reef at depths of 30m (100ft) off the coast of Tahiti, French Polynesia. It is one of the largest discovered at that depth ...