Physicists and marine biologists built a quantitative framework that predicts how coral polyps collectively construct a variety of coral shapes.

Time-lapse video shows how a mushroom coral polyp pulses and inflates, flinging its soft body into micro-hops to slowly move itself to a new location.

For centuries, it lay peacefully in the crystal-clear waters of the Solomon Islands, hidden from view. What scientists believed to be a shipwreck turned out to be the largest coral ever discovered, an ...

Coral is comprised of tiny individual creatures called polyps, which form a connected hardened shell when living en masse in a colony. The average polyp grows to about a quarter of an inch.

Corals, such as those under the coral center’s care, rescued as the disease advanced toward the southern end of the Keys, now hold the future in their gently waving polyps. In a nondescript ...

Corals, such as those under the coral center’s care, rescued as the disease advanced toward the southern end of the Keys, now hold the future in their gently waving polyps. In a nondescript industrial ...

Corals, such as those under the coral center’s care, rescued as the disease advanced toward the southern end of the Keys, now hold the future in their gently waving polyps.

Coral reefs in Calatagan, Batangas, are turning white due to coral bleaching, a condition linked to global warming and climate change, according to local environmental groups. This condition occurs ...

Climate change threatens coral reefs, but a recent study suggests that playing healthy reef sounds can help restore them.

While coral polyps are reluctant to grow in the lab, the anemone Nematostella vectensis is a breeze to work with. It was the first in the family of jellyfish and corals to have its genome sequenced.

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