Scientists from the University of Miami, the Florida Aquarium, and Tela Marine in Honduras are transplanting crossbred coral ...

Scientists have successfully spawned a cross-bred coral and plan on planting them just off Biscayne Bay in Miami.

Tropical coral reefs encrust the coastlines of islands and continents near Earth’s equator but this zone, which has offered ...

An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. In the summer of 2024, searing ocean temperatures devastated much of Mesoamerica’s ...

A couple years ago, your lab in Apollo Beach became the first facility anywhere to spawn Elkhorn corals on land. You all just transplanted them to a bunch of places in the Keys. Tell us about that.

A study published in the journal Coral Reefs reveals that heat-tolerant symbiotic algae may be essential to saving elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata)—a foundational species in Caribbean reef ...

A new study reveals that heat-tolerant symbiotic algae may be essential to saving elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata) -- a foundational species in Caribbean reef ecosystems -- from the devastating ...

TELA BAY, Honduras — Viewed from the boat, the mighty elkhorn corals shimmer through the clear water, their tips grazing the surface and seeming to reach for the hull. But it’s only when one ...

They started with the marine biologists’ expertise. When scientists say that coral “grows,” they’re referring to two processes: expansion and cloning. In expansion, individual polyps deposit calcium ...

Elkhorn coral in the Caribbean is Critically Endangered (Photo: MSC Foundation) A new IUCN Red List report published at the COP29 climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, has found that forty-four per ...

Corals share the phylum Cnidaria with anemones, hydrozoans, and jellyfish, animals that use their characteristic stinging cells, called cnidocytes (cnid is Greek for nettle), for food and defense.

Corals, such as those under the coral center’s care, rescued as the disease advanced toward the southern end of the Keys, now hold the future in their gently waving polyps.