Five new cembrane diterpenoids, sarcrassins A−E (1−5) along with a known compound, emblide (6), have been isolated from the soft coral Sarcophyton crassocaule collected from the Bay of Sanya, Hainan ...

From mice performing first aid to birds using antioxidants, animals display remarkable self-medication behaviors that could inspire human medicine.

Eltahawy et al. (2015) measured the anticonvulsant activity of ceramide isolated from the Red Sea soft coral Sarcophyton auritum using a pentylenetetrazol (PTZ)-induced seizure model, and the ...

In the absence of hard corals, other animals like the soft leather coral Sarcophyton can come to dominate stressed coastlines. Not only does the reduced sunlight harm the hard-coral holobionts; the ...

Bottle-nosed dolphins were seen to rub against corals, which research has now found to contain 17 active metabolites.

While the medicinal affects of coral on humans are being studied researchers observing the dolphins believe it could be used to help fight cancer, arthritis, bacterial infections, viruses, and ...

The dolphins brush up against soft gorgonian corals (Rumphella aggregata), sturdier leather corals (Sarcophyton sp.) and other specific sponges (Ircinia sp.).

Dolphins wait in queue for rubbing their skin against corals These lovable and intelligent animals keep on surprising us with their complex behavior.

In the Red Sea off the coast of Egypt, bottlenose dolphins were spotted in 2009 doing something unusual. They lined up to rub their bodies against a particular type of coral.

For Indo-Pacific bottlenosed dolphins, rubbing against corals and sea sponges that contain antibacterial compounds could help keep skin healthy.

Dolphin mother teaches her calf to rub against corals that release a mucus with antibacterial compounds and other potentially beneficial substances.

The researchers took samples of gorgonian coral (Rumphella aggregata), leather coral (Sarcophyton sp.) and a sea sponge (Ircinia sp.), then analysed them using a high-resolution spectrometer in ...