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 ...

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 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 ...

As these crucial "reef gardeners" disappear, coral reefs face a growing threat of algal overgrowth, pushing entire ecosystems toward collapse. The study was published in Ecology. Sea urchins, often ...

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 ...

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

Tropical rainforests and coral reefs are both highly complex ecosystems that are rich in biodiversity. Coral reefs are often described as underwater rainforests. -- Maui Ocean Center photo ...

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 ...