Coral reefs are very much the rainforests of ... a material frequently used as building material. Corals which only formed in the past 100,000 years are quickly altered. Although the skeletons ...

"One fascinating observation is that coral skeletons and mollusk mother-of-pearl form with exactly the same precursors, yet ...

The reefs the coral formed once teemed with so much life and biodiversity that scientists referred to them as the “rainforests of the sea.” Sensitive to temperature spikes, coral reefs now appear a ...

At Mote Marine Laboratory, our group has developed a new approach to restoring corals, depicted below. Already, we have seen new coral form across the dead skeleton of massive brain, boulder, star, ...

With time-lapse video, scientists show how tiny mushroom corals can move themselves to influence their fate. Trilobites With time-lapse video, scientists show how tiny mushroom corals can move ...

Before Charles Darwin came up with his famous theory about evolution, he proposed a theory of how coral reefs and atolls formed. Some of the specimens he collected to support his theory are now cared ...