COLUMBUS, Ohio – How well ocean reefs recover from the growing damage caused by warming sea temperatures depends both on how much the tiny coral polyps can eat, and how healthy they can keep the ...

The Florida Aquarium in Tampa is restoring reefs one polyp at a time.Aquarium workers transplanted 9,000 baby coral polyps born at<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More ...

Reef-building coral may feed more efficiently by using tiny hair-like structures to generate food-carrying conveyer belts in the water running across their surface. Corals that form reefs consist of ...

Stony, rock hard corals are living animals, and here in Hawai i are known as koa. The coral animal is called a polyp, and it is a very tiny creature that looks like an upside-down jellyfish. These ...

Some coral species can be resilient to marine heat waves by "remembering" how they lived through previous ones, research by Oregon State University scientists suggests. Coral on the Great Barrier Reef ...

Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands have drawn inspiration from a tiny tentacled marine creature to produce a centimeter-scale robot that is powered by magnets and ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Discovered in 2014, stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) has ...

A towering, centuries old sea creature has been found rising from the seafloor off New Zealand, its branches forming a living ...