Zooxanthellae are plantlike organisms that photosynthesize and exchange food and nutrients with their host coral. In the warm oligotrophic waters where corals thrive, the nutrition provided by ...

Scientists found a free-living coral species actively travels toward blue light resembling its natural habitat and moves like ...

Scientists have developed a novel tool designed to protect and conserve coral reefs by providing them with an abundance of ...

Now, to keep Florida’s reef alive, scientists have to breed corals almost entirely in labs on land, where the water is clean ...

The animals prefer water depths between 15 and ... a family of algae that creates nutrients for the coral by converting sunlight into energy by way of photosynthesis. In exchange, the algae ...

Not only are they diverse communities, but the coral skeletons - like trees - contain potentially long term records of climate. Aa Aa Aa Corals reefs are communities of organisms in which corals ...

But there’s another, lesser-known and understudied kind of coral that’s completely solitary. And some of these animals, known as mushroom corals, can walk. “They’re very little,” said Brett Lewis, a ...

Coral snakes are extremely reclusive and generally bite humans only when handled or stepped on. They must literally chew on their victim to inject their venom fully, so most bites to humans don't ...

Between predator-prey and competitive relationships, it may seem that organisms are alone in the world, fighting to survive and reproduce. But many organisms have evolved cooperative strategies ...