With so many animals calling the reef home, it could be easy to miss a tiny, pink crab tucked against the coral. Less than a centimeter wide, the crab appeared fluffy and caught the eyes of a ...

This promotes the growth of pink, rock-hard crustose coralline algae — the best surface for coral larvae to settle on and rebuild the reef. Enric Sala / National Geographic ...

Coral reefs operate like seawalls, helping minimize flooding during hurricanes. ... Some are pink. Others are red, orange, or yellow. For a few minutes, the ocean is a snow globe, ...

Florida’s coral reef — the world’s third-largest — experienced an unprecedented and potentially deadly level of bleaching over the summer. Derek Manzello, coordinator of the National ...

Manzello said climate models suggest that all of the world's coral will be suffering severe bleaching every year beginning around 2040. A fish swims at the Flower Garden Banks National Marine ...

Fish swim amidst pink coral in the Lophelia Reef, located about 200 kilometres east of Haida Gwaii, in this undated handout photo. (Fisheries and Oceans Canada) ...

Biologists have recently discovered that certain rocky pink algae, called crustose coralline algae (CCA), play an important role in attracting coral larvae and encouraging them to settle on the reef.