This story appears in the May 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. Not far beneath the surface of the Coral Sea, where the Great Barrier Reef lives, parrotfish teeth grind against rock ...

The Great Barrier Reef is home to an incredible amount of biodiversity, with over 9,000 known species of marine life National Geographic Society. However, there are likely many more species that ...

This story appears in the October 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Its Australian cousin, the Great Barrier Reef, is great indeed at 1,429 miles long—the biggest structure created ...

Visitors to the National Geographic website can discover trips centered on wildlife. The expedition to Sri Lanka showcases various animals, Australia’s great barrier reef stuns scuba divers ...

In 2016 and 2017, marine heat waves caused by climate change resulted in mass bleaching, which killed about half of the corals on the Great Barrier Reef ... withdrew its National Energy Guarantee ...