Six Flags Great Adventure‘s newest giraffe calf. The Jackson, New Jersey, resort announced the newest edition to its Wild ...

Divers, underwater submersibles and remotely operated vehicles found 886 marine species over a 16-month period, and they have ...

The animals prefer water depths between 15 and ... a family of algae that creates nutrients for the coral by converting sunlight into energy by way of photosynthesis. In exchange, the algae ...

Among the myriad creatures that populate our ocean, some stand out as having an outsized impact on the marine environment—shaping and maintaining habitats that themselves sustain countless other forms ...

Time-lapse video shows how a mushroom coral polyp pulses and inflates, flinging its soft body into micro-hops to slowly move itself to a new location.

Coral is two things at once. It is a stony underwater structure, often spanning swaths of seafloor, that shelters ecstatically diverse marine life. It’s also the animal that builds that structure: an ...

Tails are wagging at the Cape Coral Animal Shelter. The nonprofit, no-kill shelter and veterinary clinic received a $1.5 million grant from the Golisano Foundation. It will go toward a major ...

Coral reefs are marine structures created by calcifying coral animals and their algal symbionts. Coral reef ecosystems are generally high in biodiversity, most often found in shallow tropical seas ...

live animals, speakers, arts-and-craft vendors, kids activities, bus tours of nearby owl burrows and more. It’s organized by the nonprofit Cape Coral Friends of Wildlife. The distinctive birds ...