Without human intervention, these branching, golden Elkhorn corals that resemble elk antlers wouldn’t be naturally settling on Florida reefs. Far too many have been lost for them to breed on ...

For certain vulnerable corals, help is in the claws of a crab. Reporting in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, researchers found that a species of branching coral benefitted ...

Researchers have discovered that the coral species Cycloseris cyclolites can 'walk' across the ocean floor, migrating toward favorable conditions. This behavior, involving rhythmic pulsed ...

You might be used to seeing corals planted in one spot. That’s because most of them permanently attach themselves to an area on a reef and stay there indefinitely. But not all coral species want ...

With time-lapse video, scientists show how tiny mushroom corals can move themselves to influence their fate. Trilobites With time-lapse video, scientists show how tiny mushroom corals can move ...

Tucked away in an office park hundreds of miles from the southeast Florida coast where North America’s only barrier reef is at dire risk, a collection of brain corals performed a once-a-year ...

For instance, the two species of branching corals native to the Caribbean are in very bad shape, he says. But there are more than 100 species of branching corals globally, some of which could ...

More Courtesy of the University of Miami Rosenstiel School "But the really cool outcome is that by adding corals, especially using branching corals that cause a lot of friction, you can increase ...

A lab in a Dutch zoo has presented special corals that bred themselves and nestled them in Europe's largest coral reef. The corals are part of a project by the World Coral Conservatory.

This success is encouraging, but challenges still remain. The corals used to construct these restored reefs are predominantly branching coral types, chosen by the restoration team because they are ...