Yellow toenails should never be ignored. They're most often caused by a fungal infection that's contagious and hard to eliminate without proper treatment. You can also develop yellow toenails as a ...

Yellow-band disease – named for the colour it turns corals before destroying them – was first spotted decades ago and has caused widespread damage to Caribbean reefs.

Jennifer Mallon receives funding from US-UK Fulbright Commission, Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program, University of Glasgow Early Career Mobility Award and the Link Foundation. Adrian ...

The deadly Wangary bushfire 20 years ago appears to have been the final nail in the coffin for rare yellow-tailed black cockatoos on the Eyre Peninsula. There are fewer than a dozen birds left alive.

Florida Coral Rescue Center biologist Justin Zimmerman explains why coral reefs are important to Florida's economy and how they protect the coastline. Marine scientists tracked coral colonies in a ...

Pull off the highway, and stretch your legs on the trail to the toadstools. While this hike is only 1.6 miles roundtrip, it’s a south-facing route with little to no shade. Be sure to bring plenty of ...

You might be used to seeing corals planted in one spot. That’s because most of them permanently attach themselves to an area on a reef and stay there indefinitely. But not all coral species want ...

Explore the Grant Museum of Zoology like never before in this virtual reality experience, in which you will be submerged into a 'flooded' museum transformed into a coral reef. Dive amongst healthy, ...

A form of coral known as the "bent sea rod" experiencing bleaching off Florida's coast in 2014. Credit: US Geological Survey Scientists in Australia have observed unprecedented coral bleaching ...

Scientists have found that coral bleaching on Australia's Great Barrier Reef has reached "catastrophic" levels. More than 40% of corals monitored near an island in the southern reef were killed ...

When you imagine a coral, it's probably not walking around. In fact, by most accounts, corals are sessile, meaning they are fixed to the surface of their habitat, often the reef built from the bones ...

A species of free-living coral, Cycloseris cyclolites, defies traditional coral behavior by actively migrating toward light using a movement strategy reminiscent of jellyfish. A new study from ...