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

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

But there’s another, lesser-known and understudied kind of coral that’s completely solitary. And some of these animals, known as mushroom corals, can walk. “They’re very little,” said Brett Lewis, a ...

When it comes time to migrate, new research has found how a free-living coral ignores the classic advice and goes straight towards the light.

When you imagine a coral, it's probably not walking around. 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 ...

Cycloseris cyclolites is an adorably small free-living species of mushroom coral capable of migrating to different reef habitats, often driven by the search for optimal light conditions.

cyclolites specimens off the coast of Cairns, Australia, before transporting them to an aquarium at ... the waves and the reef’s natural slope combine, the mushroom corals are gradually pushed ...