"If there are recurrent disturbances and the corals can't recover—these ecosystems will collapse." The research focused on reef-building Acropora corals, and included genetic studies that showed ...

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 ...

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.

Staghorn coral (Acropora cervicornis) and Elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata) are two examples of Critically Endangered species in the Caribbean that have experienced significant declines due to ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The coral variant Acropora squarrosa, which is native to areas around the Kii Peninsula and the Shikoku region, has created a vibrant, tropics-like scene near the Boso Peninsula at the entrance to ...