The red coral colonies that were transplanted a decade ago on the seabed of the Medes Islands have survived successfully. They are very similar to the original communities and have contributed to the ...

Declan Morrissey, a zoologist at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, told McClatchy News the coral was ...

When the waves and the reef’s natural slope combine ... sandy seabed environment. From there, a coral can use its active mobility, or “walking,” skills to move deeper and search for like ...

An individual coral is a polyp. It’s a very small and simple creature consisting mostly of a stomach topped by a mouth, a bit like a hungry toddler. Corals take a very long time to grow.

Most corals are colonial animals - superorganisms comprising lots of smaller organisms - made up of multitudes sea anemone-like coral polyps. In the reef-building "hard corals", the polyps sit in ...

Twenty-nine of Darwin's coral specimens were donated to the natural history collections of the British Museum in 1841, which later formed the independent Natural History Museum. To hear more from Dr ...

Record ocean heat has taken a devastating toll on one of the world’s greatest natural wonders, with coral bleaching on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef reaching “catastrophic” levels ...

A new manufacturing method inspired by coral reefs can captture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and transform it into durable, fire-reistant building materials.

"The community has also assimilated the structure expected in natural red coral communities. This reinforces the key value of habitat-generating species such as red coral, and the benefits that ...