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 ...

A new study has found that the free-living mushroom coral responds to specific types of light by “walking” towards it, ...

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 ...