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The huge monster-sized animal, measuring over 100 feet across, isn't a fish or even a marine mammal like a whale. It's a ...

the findings show just how closely related these corals are to jellyfish mechanisms which have been previously researched as a key point in the evolution of the centralised nervous system humans ...

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.

The huge creature, which 'can be seen from space', was discovered entirely by accident by divers exploring a wreck ...

Providing new insights into coral mobility mechanisms, the findings show just how closely related these corals are to jellyfish mechanisms which have been previously researched as a key point in the ...

Duygu Sevilgen uses extremely small sensors to record the fine details of coral skeletons and listen to their dialogue with ...

A new study has found that the free-living mushroom coral responds to specific types of light by “walking” towards it, suggesting remarkable adaptability in the marine species. Not all corals ...

Professor Uri Frank at the University of Galway secures a Wellcome Trust award to study stem cell biology using Hydractinia ...

Physicists and marine biologists built a quantitative framework that predicts how coral polyps collectively construct a variety of coral shapes. Since before she could remember, Eva Llabrés was a ...

Corals aren’t necessarily known for their fancy footwork — or even having feet. But scientists have observed a free-living mushroom coral, Cycloseris cyclolites, actively “walking” toward ...

The distinctive movement seen in C. cyclolites suggests that free-living corals may have more complex body functions, similar to jellyfish — the evolutionary cousin of coral — than scientists ...