Coral is two things at once. It is a stony underwater structure, often spanning swaths of seafloor, that shelters ecstatically diverse marine life. It’s also the animal that builds that structure: an ...

Often the polyps are very tiny, and locating the individual coralites ... Look carefully at the internal structure of this rugose coral . What are the lines running across the organism? How did these ...

Coral polyps, the reef's building blocks ... With over 400 species in the region, "they structure the entire environment; they're the habitat for everything else here." The perfect temperature ...

The coral was identified as Pavona clavus. It is a single structure made up of a complex network of coral polyps, serving as a record of centuries of undersea conditions. The coral is estimated to ...

Within the structure of the coral reefs, members of almost every phyla of plants and animals live and die, adding particles and organic material to the sediment, and contributing to the efficient ...

Coral reefs have soft tissue called polyp on their skeletal frames, which is made of calcium carbonate, and the bone structure and polyp layers grow over time. Ueda stabilized a coral fragment ...

In the reef-building "hard corals", the polyps sit in a carbonate coral skeleton, which over time builds the fabric of the reef. Coral reefs are like cities under the sea. The structure of the ...

Those polyps clone themselves over and over again, eventually forming larger coral colonies that build ... corals that form the reef’s complex structure and help safeguard coastal communities ...