ORLANDO, Fla.—Tucked away in an office park hundreds of miles from the southeast Florida coast where North America’s only barrier reef is at dire risk, a collection of brain corals performed a ...

Large pieces of brain coral are washing ashore on Texas beaches, likely due to storms or other underwater disturbances. Brain coral, a slow-growing hard coral, forms important reef habitats in the ...

MIAMI — Off the northern coast of Honduras, thick stands of endangered elkhorn coral have mysteriously defied warming oceans fueled by climate change to blanket the reef with healthy, cocoa-brown ...

In a lab at the University of Miami, there are tanks of knobby, tan-colored corals from Florida, Honduras and the Cayman Islands. They've been drafted into a sort of coral Olympics, as scientists look ...