Bleached coral reefs usually appear as an endless stretch of white coral and eventually turn to dead brown coral. But in New Caledonia Vevers found something different. The corals he captures lit ...

John "Charlie" Veron -- widely known as "The Godfather of Coral" -- is a renowned reef expert who has personally discovered nearly a quarter of the world's coral species and has spent the past 45 ...

One inch of the coral’s light brown tips was bumpy with living polyps ... This coral species, known as acropora hemprichii, ...

Not far beneath the surface of the Coral Sea, where the Great Barrier Reef lives, parrotfish teeth ... to mitt-shaped boulders draped with nubby brown corals as leathery as saddles.

Colors range from dark gray and brown to more vibrant pinks ... crown-of-thorns starfish can mow down wide swaths of coral reef. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) reports ...