Physicists and marine biologists built a quantitative framework that predicts how coral polyps collectively construct a ...

Even when we think we know everything, or that we think we have a grasp on what species occur in our environment, we don’t,” ...

Among the myriad creatures that populate our ocean, some stand out as having an outsized impact on the marine environment—shaping and maintaining habitats that themselves sustain countless other forms ...

Moana star Auli'i Cravalho talks about her new documentary, Reef Builders, her passion for restoring the coral reefs, plus ...

Reef Builders spotlights the inspiring stories of the people behind the Sheba Hope GrowsTM program - part of one of the world ...

At 25 feet deep, the Philippine Coral Reef tank is one of the deepest and largest indoor display of living coral in the world. Under the surface, hundreds of fish mingle with eels, anemones, starfish, ...

Cryopreservation technology preserves genetic coral diversity over decades and even centuries at Mote's Sarasota facility.

Without healthy coral reefs, the islands wouldn’t even exist ... Sometimes as small as a pencil tip, polyps make up the coral ...

That’s how typical reef-building corals, like the iconic elkhorn and staghorn species, with their antler-like appearance, produce offspring. That’s how they’ve been doing it for millions of years. But ...

Scientists say they found the world’s largest coral near the Pacific’s Solomon Islands, announcing a significant discovery “pulsing with life and colour”. The coral is so large that ...

Time-lapse video shows how a mushroom coral polyp pulses and inflates, flinging its soft body into micro-hops to slowly move itself to a new location.