A joint study by Tel Aviv University and the University of Haifa set out to solve a scientific mystery: how a soft coral is ...

This coral keeps time without a brain, showing how distributed nerve nets can synchronize movement across an entire animal.

Soft corals produce diterpenoids, chemicals that could be used to treat human disease. Now, scientists have identified the genes that make these important chemicals, opening the door to creating a ...

Researchers from Hong Kong Baptist University identified the new species, named Parasphaerasclera dimorpha sp nov and ...

On occasion, it is of vital importance to consider how little we know about the spinning rock we all live on. Take coral reefs, for example. Given how much they've been studied, you'd think we've ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. --- Scleractinian corals, or hard corals, have been disappearing globally over the past four decades, a result of climate change, pollution, unsustainable coastal development and ...

An invasive soft coral has been spotted in Hawaii and Puerto Rico and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration is warning Florida to start preparing. Xenia pulse corals are soft corals that ...

Picture in your mind snorkeling along the base of a tall cliff that drops straight down into the sea and on into the deep blue. You look down and on that cliff below you are growing what look like ...

Soft corals can emit a noxious brew of terpenes to kill their stony coral cousins and inhibit others from gaining a foothold. Stony corals retaliate by deploying sweeper tentacles, long whip-like ...