The branching coral technique. Cuttlefish used this 12 percent more often when hunting purple mangrove crabs, which were better armed and armored than other crabs.CreditCredit...Matteo Santon ...

For certain vulnerable corals, help is in the claws of a crab. Reporting in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, researchers found that a species of branching coral benefitted ...

As branching coral look-alikes, the cuttlefish splayed out their arms and displayed dark mottles to blend in with staghorn coral. Sometimes, they even reached out one pair of arms toward their prey.

Over the 234 displays that were seen, the authors found the cuttlefish had four main hunting displays that they named leaf, ...

The team documented crabs of the species Cyclodius ungulatus feeding along the margins of tissue loss in the branching coral species Acropora aspera. Video by Julianna Renzi Disclaimer ...

A critical issue in reef conservation efforts is the slow rate at which corals can recover from damage. Although some branching corals can grow rapidly, most grow only a few centimeters annually ...

Coral surveyor Margaux Hein swims over a field of recently dead branching corals, northern Great BarrierReef, October 2016. Credit: Greg Torda, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies The ...

“It has gone deep, it’s not just the top of the reef that is bleaching. Many different species of coral are bleaching.” ...

Restoration projects heavily favour quick-growing branching corals. The delicate branches of these corals are more susceptible to becoming fragments of opportunity, and are also easier to ...

Many different species of coral are bleaching." Branching through shallow waters along Australia's western coast, the 300-kilometer (185-mile) Ningaloo Reef is one of the largest "fringing reefs ...