"Coral has three main anatomical parts: the surface mucus, the outside of the coral body; the tissue, which is the inner ...

Young dolphins seem to learn this skin care routine from their elders as the coral mucus contains bioactive compounds that ...

This mucus creates a “carbon-rich” layer between the coral and the surrounding water and is colonized by hundreds of millions of microbes per square centimeter. Research investigating microbial ...

A close relative of coral and jellyfish ... which are protected by a mucus layer that makes them immune to the anemone's sting. Clownfish live within the anemone’s tentacles, getting protection ...

Mucus from jellyfish that sit upside-down on the seafloor has blobs lined with stinging cells The stinging cells are coated on tiny mobile blobs called cassiosomes within the mucus that “zoom ...