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.

On Friday NOAA announced that it is delaying protections for pillar coral. The 60-day delay means that the effective date of ...

Coral polyps, the reef's building blocks, are tiny colonial animals that house symbiotic algae in their cells. As those algae photosynthesize—using light to create energy—each polyp is fueled ...

Corals are colonial organisms made up of individual polyps, each 1–3 mm in diameter, that are connected to one another via a thin layer of tissue (Figure 2). The connection between polyps allows ...

Coral reefs consist of hundreds of thousands of coral polyps - marine animal invertebrates with hard calcium carbonate ...

Scientists race to protect coral polyps — and the fragile ecosystems they host — from becoming deep-sea ghost towns. Laura Boast Vividly coloured coral reefs are a beautiful backdrop in ...

There they metamorphose, like a caterpillar to a butterfly, into a coral polyp. Those polyps clone themselves over and over again, eventually forming larger coral colonies that build reefs.

This coral species, known as acropora hemprichii, grows in the shallow reefs of the Maldives in tapered branches which ...

We’ll explain everything you need to know, in a nutshell… Corals are tiny animals called a ‘polyps’, that typically live in large colonies. Similar to a sea anemone, a polyp has a squidgy body, with a ...

“Just when we think there is nothing left to discover on planet Earth, we find a massive coral made of nearly one billion little polyps, pulsing with life and colour,” marine ecologist Enric ...

On the floor of the tank a small coral “tree”, around six inches high, is beginning to spawn.The polyps on its branches – each a living ani­mal – are releasing what Craggs aptly describes as an ...