Every grade schooler knows that Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest ... at all to those outside Australia, ...

An extremely rare white humpback whale calf has been spotted near Australia's Great Barrier Reef in an event witnesses described Thursday as a “once in a lifetime experience”. Believed to be ...

A 59-year-old man is in critical condition after a shark attacked him on Sunday at Australia's Great Barrier Reef, near the north Queensland city of Townsville, rescuers said. Paramedics airlifted ...

Not far beneath the surface of the Coral Sea, where the Great Barrier ... from which the reef has always recovered. Drawn to the smell of a dead sperm whale, a ten-foot tiger shark arrives at ...

The Great Barrier Reef is a special place. It’s a coral reef wonderland that’s home to more than 2,900 individual reefs and 9 ...

and was on the way back to their charter vessel when he was bitten by a shark on Monday. A doctor and paramedics responded to the scene near the Great Barrier Reef, and he was treated on board the ...

The Great Barrier Reef is a tough place to live, even for a shark. Extreme tides and high temperatures leave the reef as a series of rockpools at low tide. Bigger sharks are forced into deeper ...

Listen to an audio recording from Lady Elliot Island on the Great Barrier Reef (2.2MB ... such as the blue whale, to be the loudest animal in the ocean. Reef sounds are beneficial to some marine ...