How well ocean reefs recover from the growing damage caused by warming sea temperatures depends both on how much the tiny coral polyps can eat, and how healthy they can keep the microscopic algae that ...

This summer, it was all over the media. Driven by the climate crisis, the oceans have now also passed a critical point: The ...

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Museum researchers reconstructed the evolutionary history of stony corals over the past 460 million years, providing insights ...

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Corals reefs can stretch for thousands of kilometres, and the photogenic menagerie of animals they house is obvious to the naked eye. But reefs are built by tiny coral polyps—tentacled animals that ...

Reef-building coral may feed more efficiently by using tiny hair-like structures to generate food-carrying conveyer belts in the water running across their surface. Corals that form reefs consist of ...

Corals may have unexpected allies in improving their health and resilience. Corals may have unexpected allies in improving their health and resilience. In a new study published today in Proceedings of ...

ORLANDO, Fla. – Simulated moonlight. Perfect temperatures. A hum of bubbling saltwater. A team of marine biologists had done everything they could to set the stage for something akin to a romantic ...

Although largely sedentary, corals are extravagant builders. Over millions of years, the shells of these tiny animals can accumulate into sprawling structures like Australia’s 80,000-square-mile Great ...

A coral is an animal that demands imagination. Look closely through a dive mask (or a Google image search) and you’ll see that a coral reef’s rocky undulations are coated in an astonishing skin of ...