Climate change is one of the biggest threats facing all coral species today, and staghorn corals are no exception. Higher than normal water temperatures cause coral to evict their symbiotic algae ...

Scientists sent hundreds of critically endangered corals from South Florida to the Texas Gulf Coast on Wednesday in a ...

After a brutally hot summer in 2023 that caused widespread bleaching and coral death, summer 2024 was more favorable for the ...

White band disease, for example, first appeared in the 1970s and has since killed more than 80 percent of staghorn and elkhorn ... coloring from a symbiotic algae that lives inside the live ...

from staghorn stalks and wave-smoothed plates to mitt-shaped boulders draped with nubby brown corals as leathery as saddles. Soft corals top hard ones, algae and sponges paint the rocks ...

A year after the worst coral bleaching ever recorded, Florida's reefs are slowly recovering. Despite elevated ocean ...

Wielding pliers and zip ties, I was trying — and trying — to fasten a branch of staghorn coral to Bonaire ... equipped with wire brushes to clean algae from the underwater frames to which ...

When corals are stressed, they release their algae and turn pale or white ... Instead, they prioritized staghorn coral, which resemble skinny deer antlers, and elkhorn coral, which look like ...

The staghorn coral, Acropora cervicornis ... Corals provide the substrate for sessile organisms to attach, including algae, sponges, and non-reef building corals (e.g., fire corals, soft corals ...

The Miraculous Reef Among the branches of staghorn coral ... Goatfish feed in the sand and butterfly fish graze on algae. Large fish snap up smaller fish. Sharks patrol the outer edges of schools ...

Thanks to a scientific petition the Center submitted, elkhorn and staghorn corals gained federal legal protection ... these delicate corals from the overfishing of fish that eat marine algae — fish ...

Thanks to a scientific petition the Center submitted, elkhorn and staghorn corals gained federal legal protection ... these delicate corals from the overfishing of fish that eat marine algae — fish ...