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Time-lapse video shows how a mushroom coral polyp pulses and inflates, flinging its soft body into micro-hops to slowly move itself to a new location.

Coral reefs are some of the world's most diverse ecosystems. Despite making up less than 1% of the world's oceans, one ...

During the dive, some “long white tentacles” stretching out from under the coral reef “really caught my eye,” she said. Hutchings knew the tentacles belonged to a marine worm and that ...

Home to silky sharks, myriad fish, and the critically endangered elkhorn coral, the reef teems with life and ... life unseen during the day. Marine worms attracted to an underwater light form ...

Overfishing of sharks is linked to coral reef destruction. Without sharks, smaller fish stop eating coral-eating starfish.

sponges and serpulid tube worms. Sheltering everything from microscopic food to fish for turtles, it was a whole ecosystem in itself.' The giant Turbinaria coral going into Hintze Hall has been in the ...

He used a long pole to leap along the coral reef edge. Darwin’s specimen of Porites coral. This group of corals takes on many forms and its skeleton is a favourite habitat for Christmas tree worms, ...