A groundbreaking study of 7,000-year-old exposed coral reef fossils reveals how human fishing has transformed Caribbean reef food webs: As sharks declined by 75 percent and fish preferred by humans ...

Even though they’re found in the Great Lakes, Petoskey stones are actually fossilized coral. You can tell a Petoskey stone by its honeycomb pattern (in fact, the word “hexagon” is part of the ...

Mounting evidence shows the state of coral reefs is worsening despite concerted local conservation. The answer is public ...

This is a fossilized coral — one of dozens scattered across the Indian Ocean archipelago of the Seychelles. It is a piece of history, hidden in plain sight. It tells of a time 125,000 years ago, when ...

I was recently watching an old surf movie about the Pipe Masters surf contest held at Pipeline on the North Shore of O‘ahu and got a kick out of the prio surfers talking about the reef at Pipeline.

Explore an ancient ocean’s hidden treasures as we uncover stunning crystals and botryoidal agate formations preserved inside fossilized coral during an epic river rockhounding adventure. This ...

One of the coral cores from the expedition. This month, an international team of researchers returned to shore after a two-month-long ocean expedition exploring fossil coral reefs off the coast of ...

Five tips for finding and polishing Petoskey stones, fossilized ancient coral found on the beaches in the shallows of Lake Michigan along the Northern Michigan coast. These cool looking Petoskey ...

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

Lead author Carra Williams, a PhD student in geosciences at the University of Sydney, here holds a fossilised coral core that has undergone neutron scanning. A University of Sydney student has ...

A groundbreaking study of 7000-year-old exposed coral reef fossils reveals how human fishing has transformed Caribbean reef food webs: as sharks declined by 75% and fish preferred by humans became ...