Two years ago, there was an unprecedented coral bleaching event that happened in Florida waters. Mote Marine Laboratory was fast to respond, saving some that were on the verge of extinction.

Coral reefs are some of the world's most diverse ecosystems. Despite making up less than 1% of the world's oceans, one ...

Over six to 12 months, the coral fragments grow to maturity and are used to propagate new corals that can be transplanted to repopulate damaged or even dead reefs. Coral gardening allows thousands ...

Cryopreservation technology preserves genetic coral diversity over decades and even centuries at Mote's Sarasota facility.

The biggest danger to coral reefs are man-made threats like overfishing ... are working on coral propagation, specifically in Maya Bay in Phi Phi Island. After Maya Bay was featured in Leonardo ...

Coral reefs are one of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet. What are the abiotic and biotic interactions that structure this diverse ecosystem? Corals are members of the phylum Cnidaria ...

Coral spawning lasts mere minutes and occurs just once annually per colony, forcing the team to conduct hundreds of night ...

Conservationists can also propagate from egg bundles collected ... they can be transplanted directly to natural or artificial reefs. Bundles of coral eggs and sperm collected during spawning ...

Those polyps clone themselves over and over again, eventually forming larger coral colonies that build reefs. That’s how typical reef-building corals, like the iconic elkhorn and staghorn ...

Researchers have found that reef fish from the Arabian Gulf, the world's hottest sea, exhibit a higher tolerance to temperature fluctuations compared to those from more thermally stable coral reefs.

The SS United States, once the fastest ocean liner to ever cross the Atlantic, will serve as a new home for marine life.

A new study suggests that the removal of predatory fish such as sharks from coral reefs may be a key factor driving outbreaks ...