In a shallow underwater cave off the southern coast of France, a team of scientists and conservationists discovered a stunningly pristine population of Mediterranean red coral. “I remember my first ...

Protection measures of the Marine Protected Areas have enable red coral colonies (Corallium rubrum) to recover partially in the Mediterranean Sea, reaching health levels similar to those of the 1980s ...

On a golden day last September, I visited the ruins of the first Greek city on the Iberian Peninsula, a settlement from the sixth century B.C. called Empúries. Traders venturing down present-day Spain ...

The red coral colonies that were transplanted a decade ago on the seabed of the Medes Islands have survived successfully. They are very similar to the original communities and have contributed to the ...

Call them the diamonds of the sea. Jewelry made from Mediterranean red coral has found a new, unprecedented level of desirability among Chinese consumers — whose insatiable penchant for the rare ...

The red coral kukri (Oligodon kheriensis) is endemic to a small region of the Himalayan tracts of northern India and Nepal; the snake species was first spotted in Uttar Pradesh in India in 1936. For ...

Researchers have found a new species of bright red coral in Hannibal Bank, an underwater seamount off Panama’s Pacific coast. The new coral, Thesea dalioi, is only the second known species of Thesea ...

As one jeweler in Torre del Greco said, “If coral disappears, we’re all closing down.” By Laura Rysman TORRE DEL GRECO, Italy — In the Vesuvius-shadowed outskirts of Naples, between the archaeological ...