A branching coral under pressure from heat and physical damage appears to gain crucial support from a particular ...

The animals prefer water depths between 15 and 100 feet. Like other corals in the Acropora genus, staghorn corals use tiny, stinging tentacles to snatch and eat small aquatic animals known as ...

Reporting in Proceedings Biological Sciences, researchers found that a species of branching coral benefitted from a ...

This coral species, known as acropora hemprichii, grows in the shallow reefs of the Maldives in tapered branches which eventually look like a bush or dome as they grow. That piece ...

They found just one baby from the genus Acropora, which includes staghorn and elkhorn corals. Recent research in Southeast Florida found a similarly small number of reef-building babies.

Many colonies of table-shaped corals or branch-shaped Acropora corals were found to have perished. The bleaching was likely caused by high ocean temperatures. The average temperature was 30.2 ...

Acropora corals with colourful bleaching in New Caledonia. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions ...

Tropical corals once dotted the coast of southern England. Some of the earliest evidence of the staghorn coral, Acropora, was found on a beach on the Isle of Wight. Today, this is one of the most ...

Amid rising ocean temperatures and mounting environmental threats, a surprising ally has emerged for the beleaguered corals ...

Multiple Acropora coral species spawned simultaneously for about an hour from around 9:30 p.m. on July 7, and a countless number of egg-sperm bundles were released into the water. “It was so mys ...

For their study, Renzi and colleagues collected samples of Acropora aspera, a type of branching coral, from a designated research area in Australia's Great Barrier Reef during a heat wave.