By 2070 the reef was no longer a continuous ecosystem but a scatter of survivors, patches of hard coral clinging to deep ...

Watch as we cut open a 20-million-year-old agatized coral, revealing an astonishing, otherworldly scene hidden inside this ...

Now, new research led by Virginia Tech geosciences graduate student Prescott Vayda has finally linked Salterella to the ...

Over 500 million years ago, the Cambrian Period sparked an explosion of skeletal creativity. Salterella, a peculiar fossil, ...

Thanks to corals’ deep-sea cousins, even the most extreme environmental changes—global warming or sudden, severe variations ...