Scientists were stunned when they discovered that a shipwreck shadow they thought they had spotted under their boat last ...

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 consist of hundreds of thousands of coral polyps - marine animal invertebrates ... and exposes their white ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers have designed a flexible material that could pave the way for the development of adaptable space structures.