The intricate, hidden processes that sustain coral life are being revealed through a new microscope developed by scientists ...

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On occasion, it is of vital importance to consider how little we know about the spinning rock we all live on. Take coral reefs, for example. Given how much they've been studied, you'd think we've ...

Many coral polyps (left) collectively grow into a coral structure by laying down calcium carbonate cups (right). How they grow together is a kind of biological packing problem. Shutterstock. The ...

Polyps can clone themselves. If you break off a small piece of coral — containing a polyp or more — from a colony, it will ...

This shift is enough to stress the polyp/algae relationship and lead to bleaching in coral species around the world. However, while heat is the leading cause, it’s not the only one.

The standalone structure, formed from a "complex network" of tiny coral polyps, has likely been growing for 300 years or more, the researchers said.

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. 4 ...

Tiny coral polyps form on coral colonies. Their numbers reach the thousands, but the Pristine Seas expedition team thinks there are about one billion polyps in this colony. Photograph by Manu San ...

At 111 feet wide, 104 feet long, 18 feet high, and 600 feet around this stunning organism in the southwest Pacific Ocean is the world’s largest known coral that was discovered by accident. It is ...

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 ...

The intricate, hidden processes that sustain coral life are being revealed through a new microscope developed by scientists ...