Most Corals Don't Move; Researchers Find 'Moving' Corals Attracted Toward a Particular Light Recent research shows that ...

Scientists found a free-living coral species actively travels toward blue light resembling its natural habitat and moves like ...

You might be used to seeing corals planted in one spot. That’s because most of them permanently attach themselves to an area ...

In fact, by most accounts, corals are sessile, meaning they are fixed to the surface of their habitat, often the reef built from the bones of their ancestors. But a few maverick corals have shunned ...

A new study has found that the free-living mushroom coral responds to specific types of light by “walking” towards it, suggesting remarkable adaptability in the marine species. Not all corals ...

Record ocean heat has taken a devastating toll on one of the world’s greatest natural wonders, with coral bleaching on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef reaching “catastrophic” levels ...

“And they are adorable.” Using time-lapse cameras and an aquarium that blocked out all other light, Dr. Lewis recently put inch-long mushroom corals through an experiment. ‘Periodic pulses ...

Brett Lewis from the QUT School of Atmospheric and Earth Sciences and Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program, and published in PLOS One—investigated how the free-living mushroom coral ...

The research team meticulously tracked the health of 462 coral colonies at the University of Sydney's Great Barrier Reef research station at One Tree Island over a period of 161 days. The results ...