Researchers said the rare species “abruptly disappeared” from the region following an El Niño event. Now it is thriving.

A new study led by UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography may pave way for lab-based production of rare corals that fight cancer.

Rare corals may be smarter than we thought. Faced with a dire shortage of mates of their own kind, new research suggests they may be able to cross-breed with certain other coral species to breed ...

The corals were later moved to aquariums with a semi-closed system circulating seawater cooled to 10-11° Celsius (50-51.8° Fahrenheit) to recreate conditions as close as possible to those of ...

Florida’s very rare pillar coral is being added to the endangered species list. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced the listing Monday.

Scientists have mapped a hidden hotspot of soft coral diversity off East Africa, revealing surprising reef dynamics.

Rare coral reefs move into the new home at the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico studies at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi for further research through Operation Coral Rescue. In ...

The Acropora corals stick out of the water because the tide is low and the wind pushes the water out of the closed lagoon on November 27, 2021 in Tatakoto, French Polynesia.

Members of the Raising Coral team, a Costa Rican NGO dedicated to restoring corals on both coasts of the country, witnessed the remarkable spawning of the elkhorn coral population in the ...

Dying coral. Snorkeling the coral reefs off the Florida Keys in the 1960s and 1970s was like swimming through a kaleidoscope, with colorful algae living among roughly 30 coral species covering the ...

Rare corals may be smarter than we thought. Faced with a dire shortage of mates of their own kind, new research suggests they may be able to cross-breed with certain other coral species to breed ...