University of Waterloo researchers have pinpointed for the first time how microplastics accumulate in coral reefs, a key step ...

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

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 ...