Coral isn’t really a plant, an animal or a mineral. Instead, it’s more of a complex relationship between all three. Researchers believed that the colorful mash-up first took place about 60 million ...

For the first time scientists have shown that corals hosting a single type of zooxanthellae can have different levels of thermal tolerance -– a feature that was only known previously for corals with a ...

The Netflix documentary Chasing Coral documents in spectacular fashion the world of coral reefs, a world that is in grave danger from climate change and other threats. Reefs are enormous physical ...

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