Coral reefs will stop growing in the next decade or so unless a significant reduction in greenhouse gases is achieved, ... A grooved brain coral is bleached. Humberto Ramirez/Getty Images.

These so-called urban corals cling to man-dumped riprap boulders and concrete, growing brain coral in abundance when the same species has been almost “entirely eradicated” from offshore reefs ...

In a 600-gallon tank overlooking Port Everglades, small pieces of brain coral and massive star coral grow serenely below the surface of the water. Although some of these pieces are the size of a qu… ...

Florida Keys' corals are growing but have become more porous ... (Siderastrea siderea) and 0.47 cm yr-1 and 0.55 g cm-2 yr-1, respectively, for the symmetrical brain coral ...

Brain coral, a slow-growing hard coral, forms important reef habitats in the Gulf and Caribbean. Scientists like Keisha Bahr are working to restore damaged coral reefs worldwide.

Brain coral is most common, and the size of a dinner plate by age 75. At 300 to 500 years old, it’s the size of a car. Mote can grow that size in a couple of years, Vaughan said.

A chocolate-brown colony of brain coral, nearly 8 inches wide, has grown on the stony surface, its distinctive fleshy, serpentine folds nearly covering the rock.

Brain Corals are a type of hard coral that form massive, rounded colonies, some of which can grow several feet in diameter. They are slow-growing, often taking decades or even centuries to reach ...

Slower-growing corals like the brain species, which used to be common over the Florida reef tract, have also suffered because of the apparent shift in the bay to a nutrient-rich system, ...

There were a lot of them, including big heads of brain coral and even some pillar corals, which have been hit especially hard by SCTLD in the Caribbean. Perhaps these colonies are resistant to the ...