Along the coast of an island in southern Japan sat a “massive” sea creature. Its colorful body stretched across the surface of a rock. Something about the sea animal caught the attention of visiting ...

Things are not looking good for coral. Thanks to human-caused climate change, driven by the burning of fossil fuels, the marine invertebrates are turning white (or "bleaching") en masse as they ...

Research primarily conducted in Okinawa, Japan, by graduate student Yuka Irei and associate professor James Davis Reimer from the University of the Ryukyus, along with Dr. Frederic Sinniger from ...

This past week I had the pleasure of listening to Kate Furby (@seakaterun) from Scripps Institute of Oceanography talk about her research on the Zombie Coral Apocalypse. Yes. You heard me right.

A group of marine biologists from Japan has discovered two new species of encrusting anemone, thousands of kilometers away from the single other known species of the group. The first species from ...

Three marine biologists from Japan have discovered two new and unusually unique species of encrusting anemone. Unlike almost all known species within their genus, these two new species do not have ...