Researchers at the University of Miami are hoping that hybrid corals, created by breeding local corals with those that thrive ...

The transformation of larvae into polyps was the final step in a coral breeding project that began on the shores of Curaçao, an island off the coast of Venezuela, in the summer of 2018 and ...

The idea to breed elkhorn coral from the Florida Keys with those from Curaçao was the most extreme test yet of Hagedorn’s methods. It was a moonshot for coral conservation, says O’Neil.

Corals are often confused with rocks, or plants, but they're actually colonies of tiny animals called polyps, ... Anderson Cooper: So just because it's all Elkhorn coral, ...

The Elkhorn coral, Acropora palmata, grows into large stands via polyp budding and fragmentation so that many colonies belong to the same clone or genet. During growth, mutations can accumulate in ...

Those polyps clone themselves over and over again, ... They found just one baby from the genus Acropora, which includes ...

The elkhorn coral is one of the most endangered corals in the Caribbean and the Florida Keys. In Florida alone, the population is reduced by over 95 percent.

There they metamorphose, like a caterpillar to a butterfly, into a coral polyp. ... An elkhorn coral in the Florida Keys that bleached during the 2023 marine heat wave. Jennifer Adler.

If a coral could be charismatic, then the Elkhorn coral is one of them. They're called Elkhorn for a reason. They have very large branches that look like the horns on an elk.

Those polyps produce skeletons made of calcium carbonate—the same material found ... first appeared in the 1970s and has since killed more than 80 percent of staghorn and elkhorn corals in the ...

Elkhorn coral being grown in the Dry Tortugas since 2018 in an effort to save the population died during the August 2023 heat wave. The blistering summer heat wave that hammered South Florida’s ...