Mantis shrimp live in warm, shallow waters in the Indian and Pacific oceans. To build a home, they use their raptor-like front arm to dig burrows on the seabed surrounding a coral reef.

Pennekamp State Park—the nation's first coral-reef santcuary—protects a thriving ecosystem beneath the waves ...

Listen for yourself and read on to discover the cause. Listen to an audio recording from Lady Elliot Island on the Great Barrier Reef (2.2MB) The ‘frying’ sound is produced by snapping shrimp ...

Reefblocks were installed in the Port of Rotterdam’s busiest shipping channel near Rozenburg, creating the modular Rotterdam Reef.