Among the myriad creatures that populate our ocean, some stand out as having an outsized impact on the marine ...

“Coral reefs are one of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet.” Corals are marine invertebrates that live in communities of hundreds to thousands of identical, individual soft-bodied polyps. Each ...

Time-lapse video shows how a mushroom coral polyp pulses and inflates, flinging its soft body into micro-hops to slowly move itself to a new location.

This coral species, known as acropora hemprichii, grows in the shallow reefs of the Maldives in tapered branches which ...

Beneath the soft bodies of scleractinian, or stony corals, polyps secrete a calcium carbonate skeleton, and it is this skeleton that becomes the foundation of coral reef ecosystems. Coral colonies ...

The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest coral reef system. It stretches over 2,300 kilometres along the coast of Queensland, Australia. Made up of nearly 3,000 reefs and 900 islands, it is a ...

Coral reefs are made up of colonies of hundreds to thousands of tiny individual corals, called polyps. These marine invertebrate animals have hard exoskeletons made of calcium carbonate, and are ...

Our Planet, the incredible new documentary series narrated by Sir David Attenborough, explores the beauty of life on Earth and highlights the threats that we pose to it. In the coastal seas episode, ...

Coral reefs are complex underwater ecosystems formed primarily by colonies of tiny marine animals known as coral polyps. These polyps secrete calcium carbonate, creating hard exoskeletons that ...

One square metre of coral reef contains as many different types of animals as a whole hectare of Amazon ... They then fertilise them through a coralline version of IVF, and let the ensuing polyps grow ...

tiny animals called polyps Sarah Kuta From the busy cities to ocean waters, our need to illuminate the world has had some strange and tragic consequences Brian Handwerk A new “health check ...