The Great Barrier Reef is an underwater city built by jellyfish-like animals. The largest living structure on earth, the Great Barrier Reef is actually built by tiny creatures called coral polyps.

The Largest Living Structure on Earth Imagine something so vast that it's visible even from space—this is the Great Barrier ...

A new study has found that nearly half the coral trout caught on the Great Barrier Reef come from marine reserves—where ...

turning the host animals skeletal white. Fleshy seaweeds may then choke out the remains. Major bleaching in the Great Barrier Reef and elsewhere in 1997-98 was linked to a severe El Niño year and ...

Australian researchers are designing a global real-time monitoring system to help save the world's coral reefs from further ...

Narrator: This is the Great Barrier Reef ... A normal, healthy coral reef is very colorful. There's tons of fish swimming around. It's often quite loud underwater when you're diving on a coral ...

The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest coral reef system. It stretches over 2,300 kilometres along the coast of ...

In 2016 and 2017, marine heat waves caused by climate change resulted in mass bleaching, which killed about half of the corals on the Great Barrier Reef, along with many others around the world.

An underwater investigation ... corals were just decomposing—animals literally dripping off the rocks,” says Vevers of his dive in the Great Barrier Reef. “The most horrifying part was ...

Record-breaking ocean heat has taken a devastating toll on one of the world’s greatest natural wonders, with coral bleaching on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef reaching “catastrophic” levels, a new ...