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.

Two years ago, there was an unprecedented coral bleaching event that happened in Florida waters. Mote Marine Laboratory was ...

Corals live at the uppermost boundary of their temperature tolerance. Even a 1ºC increase in sea surface temperature can stress zooxanthallae, causing corals to bleach (Glynn 1993). While ...

When Palacio and her team examined coral reefs after the 2015–2016 heat wave, they found that particular corals called Pocillopora —the main reef-building coral species in the eastern tropical Pacific ...