Using an innovative new approach to sampling corals, researchers are now able to create maps of coral biochemistry that reveal with unprecedented detail the distribution of compounds that are integral ...

The Living Architecture of Our Oceans " These incredible structures are built by tiny animals called polyps that secrete ...

Reef-building coral may feed more efficiently by using tiny hair-like structures to generate food-carrying conveyer belts in the water running across their surface. Corals that form reefs consist of ...

One biologist in particular, Mary Hagedorn, has met this challenge with an innovative strategy, one that could preserve various coral species in the lab even if they've shut down in situ. Hagedorn's ...

Bright green and yellow fronds wave in the ocean current as schools of neon-colored fish dart around purple knobs and blobs. Welcome to the coral reef! Coral reefs are amazing and important natural ...