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.

Scientists have captured footage of the sea creatures using four distinct color-shifting techniques to trick their prey ...

scientists say Coral reef bleaching across happens when stressed coral expel the algae that are their food source and give them their color. If the bleaching is severe and long-lasting ...

The culprit? Mass coral bleaching. As the name suggests, coral bleaching strips reefs of their color, leaving them completely white. It happens when unnaturally warm ocean water causes coral to ...

He linked to a paper he ... of NOAA’s Coral Reef Conservation Program. Dozens of algae types live inside the world’s corals, sharing a relationship that gives the corals color, nutrition ...