Using an innovative new approach to sampling corals, researchers are now able to create maps of coral biochemistry that reveal with unprecedented detail the distribution of compounds that are integral ...

Using an innovative new approach to sampling corals, researchers at the University of Hawai‘i (UH) at Mānoa are now able to create maps of coral biochemistry that reveal with unprecedented detail the ...

The world’s largest coral has been found in the Solomon Islands, a remote nation made up of hundreds of small islands in the South Pacific. The coral measures 111 feet wide, 101 feet long, and nearly ...

COLUMBUS , Ohio – Certain species of coral have surprised researchers by showing an unexpectedly successful approach towards survival when seriously bleached. Their innovative strategy is gluttony.

The intricate, hidden processes that sustain coral life are being revealed through a new microscope developed by scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The diver-operated ...

Scientists were stunned when they discovered that a shipwreck shadow they thought they had spotted under their boat last November was actually a mega-coral. The Pavona clavus, now the world’s largest ...

Stony, rock hard corals are living animals, and here in Hawai i are known as koa. The coral animal is called a polyp, and it is a very tiny creature that looks like an upside-down jellyfish. These ...

A coral walks into a (sand) bar. This may sound like a joke. But new time-lapse photography shows new details of how a squishy, loner coral polyp without legs manages to “walk.” Instead of banding ...

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