Read about different competitive relationships on the reef ... stalk-eyed ghost crabs (Ocypode spp.), which live in burrows beneath the sand, relish dead animals and have evolved excellent ...

Coral reefs ... such as crabs, lobsters, sea urchins, brittlestars, and molluscs. The diversity of pelagic species is equally vast. In the waters above coral reefs, one can find nearly 25% of ...

In the mangroves off the east coast of Central America, at the edge of the Mesoamerican Reef ... or perched atop the coral heads, are hosts of invertebrates—clams, crabs, shrimps, worms ...

If you have time in your itinerary to plan a side trip to the Great Barrier Reef, it’s a worthy addition – after all, how ...

They originally thought it might have been a shipwreck ... blues and reds. Shrimp, crabs, and reef fish rely on the coral complex for both shelter and breeding groups. The coral is around three ...

When ocean temperatures exceed their normal range — increasingly due to climate change — corals experience extreme stress and ...

A glow-in-the-dark crab in the coral reef room. (Dave Laughlin/CBC) "We just like painted all of it with special painting and like glue and then we [covered] it … then we painted another layer ...

Researchers of Bangladesh Oceanographic Research Institute (BORI) found three sites in the Bay of Bengal, which are rich with coral and one site for coral reef ... a total 131 crab species ...