Even when we think we know everything, or that we think we have a grasp on what species occur in our environment, we don’t,” ...

Moana star Auli'i Cravalho talks about her new documentary, Reef Builders, her passion for restoring the coral reefs, plus ...

AMV Stream announced the release of "Reef Builders," a new documentary directed and produced by Stephen Shearman, executive ...

Cryopreservation technology preserves genetic coral diversity over decades and even centuries at Mote's Sarasota facility.

Talking about large marine animals always leads to thinking about the books of Jules Verne, the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies, the books that led to films such as 'Jaws' and al ...

(2018), to estimate coral colonies integration level ... lateral branch length, and count of apical polyps should not increase in the “removed-tip” group, suggesting that the release from the apical ...

At high temperatures, coral polyps expel the algae which normally live with them in a symbiotic relationship, turning the reef white. The algae typically provide most of the polyp's nutrition ...

A single polyp found during a flexible sigmoidoscopy exam will usually lead to follow-up colonoscopy to look for other polyps. Then, once the colon is "clean" of polyps, experts recommend repeat ...

Physicists and marine biologists built a quantitative framework that predicts how coral polyps collectively construct a variety of coral shapes. Since before she could remember, Eva Llabrés was a ...

All corals start life as a single polyp. As they age, they reproduce and form symbiotic relationships with other corals to form the vast coral reefs we know. An incredible coral fact is that corals ...

This important study advances our understanding of early Cambrian cnidarian paleoecology and suggests that the reconstructed ancestral feeding and respiration mechanisms predate jet-propelled swimming ...

The corals Duygu keeps are not a single animal – they are actually colonies of thousands of individual polyps. Polyps of Duygu’s corals look a bit like a rubber glove, with 6 (or a multiple of 6) ...