Eastern coral snakes are relatives of the cobra, mamba, and sea snake. They live in the wooded, sandy, and marshy areas of the southeastern United States, and spend most of their lives burrowed ...

The sea snakes were all around the island, swimming along the coral reef or looking for spots to nap, occasionally surfacing to breathe. The snakes were fairly easy to find and I was able to get ...

Abraham “Snake” Ah Hee rides waves ... We’ve never encountered anything like this.” Coral reefs are sometimes called the “rainforests of the sea” because they are so crucial to healthy ...

Evidence of that fact is everywhere, from bleached coral reefs to damaged food supplies, and now it might also be pushing venomous sea creatures like the yellow-bellied sea snake farther north ...

The variety of life found on coral reefs attracts some of the ocean’s deadliest predators ... it uses a twitching lure protruding from its head as bait to attract unsuspecting prey. This sea snake can ...

the framework of the coral reef is filled with sediment and cemented with calcite and aragonite. If sea level changes, the reefs become exposed to corrosive rainwater that dissolves the unstable ...

The kikumeishimodoki, or zebra coral, lies about 20 meters off the coast of the Kamo district of Tsuruoka in Yamagata Prefecture, which faces the Sea of Japan. The northern limit of the reef ...

Marine biologists studied the growth of urchin larvae at a coral nursery in Key Largo as part of an initiative to regrow the corals and sea urchins lost to coral bleaching. This footage captured in ...