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.

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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.

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On the floor of the tank a small coral, around 15cm high, is ­beginning to spawn. Its thousands of “polyps” – small, sac-like organisms embedded within its hard walls – are releasing what Craggs aptly ...

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

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 ...

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Coral reefs are formed by tiny organisms called polyps. Scientists have discovered that deep-sea black corals found off the coast of Hawaii are the longest-living. Inhabiting the coastal waters ...

Things changed once the larvae had settled and begun to form juvenile corals. Early-stage juvenile corals, known as primary polyps, lack symbiotic algae to help them meet their nutritional needs via ...