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 ...

And then there's the acid test. Follwing a full-moon night or two each year, immobile stony corals like acropora millepora release egg and sperm bundles simultaneously in an orgy of mass spawn- ing.

A study led by a researcher at the University of Stirling has identified microscopic organisms that may be crucial to the ...

The research focused on reef-building Acropora corals, and included genetic studies that showed coral diversity was ...

The staghorn coral, Acropora cervicornis, can form dense monotypic stands along the reef crest. The thin branches of A. cervicornis aid the coral in asexual reproduction, with branches breaking ...

Scientists from three research stations on the Great Barrier Reef have shared sobering accounts of the damage inflicted by ...

Scientists say the recovery from those events was driven by fast-growing Acropora corals, which are more vulnerable to thermal stress and coral bleaching. “The Great Barrier Reef has seen ...

A new study shows stony coral tissue loss disease is causing drastic changes in the Caribbean's population of corals, which ...

These assisted gene flow studies produced 600 new genetic-assorted individuals of the threatened elkhorn coral Acropora palmata. As of early 2024, there are only about 150 elkhorn individuals left ...

PHUKET: Officials from the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources (DMCR) conducted a survey of coral reefs at Phuket’s ...

Anne Hoggett, co-director of the Australian Museum’s Lizard Island Research Station, said about 80% of the shallow Acropora corals that are known as staghorn and plate-like corals had already died.

Scientists from three research stations on the Great Barrier Reef have shared sobering accounts of the damage inflicted by the latest marine heatwave. All along the Great Barrier Reef countless corals ...