Scleractinian corals, or hard corals, have been disappearing globally over the past four decades, a result of climate change, pollution, unsustainable coastal development and overfishing. However, ...

On occasion, it is of vital importance to consider how little we know about the spinning rock we all live on. Take coral reefs, for example. Given how much they've been studied, you'd think we've ...

During a two-year survey of soft corals in the Florida Keys, Mary Alice Coffroth, professor emerita of geology, along with a small team of UB researchers, identified three species of octocorals that ...

Soft and stony corals locked in a feud millions of years in the making Corals come in a dizzying kaleidoscope of forms, and their lineage is incredibly ancient. Anthozoa—the group that contains all ...