Brain coral, for example, is colored brown, yellow, and grey. The open brain coral species is particularly stunning since it is sometimes blue and red. When coral suffers stress, either caused by warm ...

Brain coral, a slow-growing hard coral, forms important reef habitats in the Gulf and Caribbean. Scientists like Keisha Bahr are working to restore damaged coral reefs worldwide.

These protected areas bring an incredible amount of biodiversity right into the bustling metropolis–including coral reefs.

But a few feet deeper, she spotted a brain coral that was a healthy, greenish brown. Then, another cluster planted in May that was a little pale, but already starting to fuse.

SCTLD has already killed off more than 90 percent of some coral species in Bonaire, including boulder brain and maze corals, according to preliminary data from STINAPA, ...

“Determining if brain coral formed via freeze-thaw cycles will reveal locations of past liquid water and inform astrobiological exploration targets seeking extant life,” say Pearson and co. The work ...

After two years of record-breaking ocean heat, scientists are assessing the impacts of the world's fourth mass bleaching event on coral reefs around the globe. At least 74 countries and ...

Brain Corals are a type of hard coral that form massive, rounded colonies, some of which can grow several feet in diameter. They are slow-growing, often taking decades or even centuries to reach ...

There were a lot of them, including big heads of brain coral and even some pillar corals, which have been hit especially hard by SCTLD in the Caribbean. Perhaps these colonies are resistant to the ...

Experts say dying corals are animals, vegetables and minerals, ... Over several evenings, more than 75% of the Center's brain coral colonies reproduced, creating nearly a half-million larvae.

By almost every measure, the coral in Tela Bay should be dead. Yet despite decades of pollution, industrial degradation, and heat waves that have decimated other reefs in the region, this reef on ...