BUFFALO, N.Y. --- Scleractinian corals, or hard corals, have been disappearing globally over the past four decades, a result of climate change, pollution, unsustainable coastal development and ...

Gumball Machine Cracker, Hawaiian Sherbert and Fizzy Lizzy sound like exotic flavors of soda pop or tasty pieces of candy, but these beauties are treats for the eyes. They are live corals and among ...

If you want to become a coral reefer and learn how to grow corals and how to maintain them, we will help you by listing the 6 easiest coral species to grow and maintain for beginners. Corals may seem ...

One day in early April, coral scientists at the Florida Aquarium in Tampa received a surprise when they found a baby coral in one of their tanks. They’d been keeping their eye on a different coral ...

Soft corals can emit a noxious brew of terpenes to kill their stony coral cousins and inhibit others from gaining a foothold. Stony corals retaliate by deploying sweeper tentacles, long whip-like ...

During a two-year survey of soft corals in the Florida Keys, Mary Alice Coffroth, professor emerita of geology, along with a small team of UB researchers, identified three species of octocorals that ...