Parrot feathers, python skins, dried seahorses may tempt you when you are on a trip, or you might want to buy a protected plant or a giant clam or piece of coral. Airport customs staff often find such ...

Coral tourism involves a lot of water activities and touring the beaches. Keeping these in mind, as tourists, there are ...

Abraham “Snake” Ah Hee rides waves when the surf’s up and dives for octopus and shells when ... like this.” Coral reefs are sometimes called the “rainforests of the sea” because ...

The study relied on reef sediment cores: tubes of material extracted from the seafloor that contain layers of coral, sea shells, and animal remains. Those cores allowed researchers to see how fast ...

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.

Photograph by Adam Dean, National Geographic Poachers in the South China Sea use their boats' propellers to break up the coral that encases giant clam shells. It leaves reefs broken and barren.

Researchers have discovered a giant coral colony on the north-western coast of Saudi Arabia, in a part of the Red Sea that is being developed as a luxury tourist resort. The colony, a feature ...