A free-living coral species defies traditional coral behavior by actively migrating toward light using a strategy reminiscent ...
When you imagine a coral, it's probably not walking around. In fact, by most accounts, corals are sessile, meaning they are fixed to the surface of their habitat, often the reef built from the bones ...
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 ...
When it comes time to migrate, Queensland University of Technology research has found how a free-living coral ignores the ...