Thanks to a scientific petition the Center submitted, elkhorn and staghorn corals gained federal ... We've also sued to protect these delicate corals from the overfishing of fish that eat marine algae ...

Miles of the seafloor — lined with thickets of dull staghorn and elkhorn corals — resembled brown, dirty carpeting. Schools of fish with stunning patterns and vivid colors stood in stark ...

These corals – species with rigid skeletons, such as elkhorn and brain corals – are the architects ... Over the past several decades, many studies have spotlighted the role of “grazers” – fish who ...

Thanks to a scientific petition the Center submitted, elkhorn and staghorn corals gained federal ... We've also sued to protect these delicate corals from the overfishing of fish that eat marine algae ...

In the summer of 1983, hundreds of square meters of graceful elkhorn coral on the floor of the Caribbean Sea began collapsing from disease and became overrun by a green carpet of algae. Within a few ...

Home to silky sharks, myriad fish, and the critically endangered elkhorn coral, the reef teems with life and vibrancy. This story appears in the November 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine.

Jan. 10, 2025 — To help rare elkhorn corals survive in ... 2024 — Artificial light can wake sleeping fish and attract predators, changing nighttime coral reef communities, according to new ...

These corals – species with rigid skeletons, such as elkhorn and brain corals – are ... many studies have spotlighted the role of “grazers” – fish who feed on algae – in keeping ...