Eastern coral snakes are relatives of the cobra, mamba, and sea snake. They live in the wooded, sandy, and marshy areas of the southeastern United States, and spend most of their lives burrowed ...

Silvery-blue with dark bands, one of the world’s most venomous snakes, found in the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia. Glossy olive or purple-brown, aggressive when provoked, found in coral reefs around ...

Most species favour coastal waters where they hunt in reefs, seagrass meadows ... will suffer the effects of rising sea temperatures and degradation of coral habitats. David says a key way to protect ...

The sea snakes were all around the island, swimming along the coral reef or looking for spots to nap, occasionally surfacing to breathe. The snakes were fairly easy to find and I was able to get ...

While studying coral reefs in the South China Sea, tiny “vibrant red” creatures — less than half an inch wide — caught the ...

The sea conceals some of the planet's most deadly inhabitants, and among them are the planet's most venomous sea snakes. These deadly snakes, unlike their land-dwelling relatives, slither through ...

The variety of life found on coral reefs attracts some of the ocean’s deadliest ... Flickr photo by Noodlefish, licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0. This sea snake can fool predators into thinking that the ...

the framework of the coral reef is filled with sediment and cemented with calcite and aragonite. If sea level changes, the reefs become exposed to corrosive rainwater that dissolves the unstable ...