TAMPA, FLA. (WSVN) - The Florida Aquarium in Tampa is restoring reefs one polyp at a time. Aquarium workers transplanted 9,000 baby coral polyps born at the conservation center. All of them will ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – How well ocean reefs recover from the growing damage caused by warming sea temperatures depends both on how much the tiny coral polyps can eat, and how healthy they can keep the ...

The world’s largest coral has been found in the Solomon Islands, a remote nation made up of hundreds of small islands in the South Pacific. The coral measures 111 feet wide, 101 feet long, and nearly ...

Stony, rock hard corals are living animals, and here in Hawai i are known as koa. The coral animal is called a polyp, and it is a very tiny creature that looks like an upside-down jellyfish. These ...

Some coral species can be resilient to marine heat waves by "remembering" how they lived through previous ones, research by Oregon State University scientists suggests. Coral on the Great Barrier Reef ...

Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands have drawn inspiration from a tiny tentacled marine creature to produce a centimeter-scale robot that is powered by magnets and ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Discovered in 2014, stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) has ...

The soft-bodied sea anemone does not produce reef-forming rocky skeletons on its own, but was induced to produce skeleton creating proteins, turning it into a good model system for studying coral ...

Do you know which is the largest coral reef in the world? Explore why the Great Barrier Reef holds this title, along with its ...

Mass coral bleaching has devastated coral colonies around the world for almost three decades. Now scientists have found that bleaching can make corals more susceptible to disease and, in turn, coral ...