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 ...

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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.

The Great Barrier Reef is known for its biodiversity, breathtaking coral formations, and importance in marine life. Learn why ...

Coral reef research has focused on the twin evils birthed by record-high greenhouse gas emissions: warming oceans and increasingly acidic seawater. These global threats are caused by seawater ...

On the floor of the tank a small coral, around 15cm high, is ­beginning to spawn. Its thousands of “polyps” – small, sac-like ...

One inch of the coral’s light brown tips was bumpy with living polyps, while the rest was dull white, resembling a dead tree ...

Certain creatures like the black corals and tuatara have been thriving on Earth since centuries. In the animal kingdom, most of the longest-living species are found in the oceans.

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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 ...