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 ...

Coral bleaching, which often results in the mass mortality of corals and in the collapse of coral reef ecosystems, has become an important issue around the world, with the number of coral reefs ...