KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. — A team of scientists from the University of Miami, the Florida Aquarium and Tela Marine in Honduras is ...

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 ...

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

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.

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.

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 ...

It was an orangey beige and its tentacles were poking out (coral polyps are a bit like sea anemones with stinging tentacles around a mouth). Elkhorn corals in CRF’s coral nursery, ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...