But there’s another, lesser-known and understudied kind of coral that’s completely solitary. And some of these animals, known as mushroom corals, can walk. “They’re very little,” said Brett Lewis, a ...

Certain creatures like the black corals and tuatara have been thriving on Earth since centuries. In the animal kingdom, most of the longest-living species are found in the oceans.

Coral reefs are marine structures created by calcifying coral animals and their algal symbionts. Coral reef ecosystems are generally high in biodiversity, most often found in shallow tropical seas ...

The animals prefer water depths between 15 and ... a family of algae that creates nutrients for the coral by converting sunlight into energy by way of photosynthesis. In exchange, the algae ...

Coral snakes are extremely reclusive and generally bite humans only when handled or stepped on. They must literally chew on their victim to inject their venom fully, so most bites to humans don't ...

Most corals are colonial animals - superorganisms comprising lots of smaller organisms - made up of multitudes sea anemone-like coral polyps. In the reef-building "hard corals", the polyps sit in ...

Tails are wagging at the Cape Coral Animal Shelter. The nonprofit, no-kill shelter and veterinary clinic received a $1.5 million grant from the Golisano Foundation. It will go toward a major ...

Coral reefs are made up of colonies of hundreds to thousands of tiny individual corals, called polyps. These marine invertebrate animals have hard exoskeletons made of calcium carbonate, and are ...

What do you do if you have too many puppies? If you're the Cape Coral Animal Shelter, you put the adorable furballs in football outfits and make'em play the Super Bowl. Well, not the Super Bowl ...