When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Watch this coral wave its hands in the air like it just don’t care! But actually, it probably ...

Using an innovative new approach to sampling corals, researchers at the University of Hawai‘i (UH) at Mānoa are now able to create maps of coral biochemistry that reveal with unprecedented detail the ...

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 ...

There is no longer any shadow of a doubt about the impact of global warming on coral reefs. A rise of a few degrees in sea surface temperature induces the expulsion of essential microscopic algae ...

Coral reefs are made up mostly of coral colonies like these. Corals are live animals made up of a colony of individual "polyps." Each polyp produces a hard skeleton in a cuplike shape for protection ...

Scientists were stunned when they discovered that a shipwreck shadow they thought they had spotted under their boat last November was actually a mega-coral. The Pavona clavus, now the world’s largest ...