You could be doing harm to sea life, causing erosion ... Other life forms depend on shells to anchor them in one place like coral and seagrass. Smaller fish hide in old shells to evade larger ...

Giant triton (snail) -> Crown-of-thorns starfish -> Hard coral One of the few predators ... crack though even the thick carapace (shell) of full-grown sea turtles. One common defense against ...

A study evaluating 21,000 marine animals suggests the threat to ocean ecosystems is more widespread than scientists thought.

Their shells were so thin they were almost transparent ... with two arms that stretch out into the Coral Sea. In the crook of the boomerang there's a small research station run by the University ...

The coral was sick. And this paste might help ... skeletons made of calcium carbonate—the same material found in sea shells—which forms the hard structure of the reef. And like other animals ...

Illegally harvested for their shells, hawksbills are declining globally ... lead to declines in outbreaks of a devastating coral-eating sea star. Slender cardinalfish gleam against a gor- gonian ...

A dramatic multi-million dollar upgrade of a Strand venue will weatherproof it and bring it closer to the Coral Sea. See ...

To boost the iconic queen conch's population, researchers are relocating the heat-stressed creatures to cooler, deeper waters ...

Researchers have discovered a new fish in Saudi Arabia that looks to be a little crabby. The Grumpy dwarfgoby, known by ...

It suffers from rising sea levels ... to have problems in producing their shells." It all has a knock-on effect - and devastating consequences for coral reefs and the ecosystem around the island.

Sea turtles, ancient creatures vital to marine ecosystems, face increasing threats from climate change and human activities.

Life made the modern Earth as much as the Earth made life, a new book by a philosopher of consciousness argues. That dynamic ...