Of course, the cows themselves are prey to other animals ... coral they commonly graze on. Their gentle disposition disappears, however, in the presence of another favorite food: sea anemones.

The ornately colored sea anemone (uh-NEM-uh-nee) is named after the equally flashy terrestrial anemone flower. A close relative of coral and jellyfish, anemones are stinging polyps that spend most ...

At first, the animals looked like nudibranchs, sea slugs “well-known for showcasing ... This means that they live directly on ...

Researchers from University of Queensland have discovered that corals need to be within 10 meters of each other to reproduce ...

Coral reef research has focused on the twin evils birthed by record-high greenhouse gas emissions: warming oceans and ...

In it, 30 colonies of coral from 10 different species rescued ... Corals are misunderstood animals, Newell says. She wants people to get to know them better while they're at the zoo.

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 ...

complex and living ecosystems that are often called the rainforests of the sea. Like tropical rainforests, coral reefs provide life and habitats for an array of plants and animals. The underwater ...

Within the structure of the coral reefs, members of almost every phyla of plants and animals live and die ... cemented with calcite and aragonite. If sea level changes, the reefs become exposed ...