FORT PIERCE, FL., MARCH 21, 2002 - In what may be the first such attempt, a HARBOR BRANCH marine biologist will take sea fans (a soft coral) that are being grown in captivity, and re-seed them on ...

The shallow water sea fan coral even has a different morphology than its deep water sister. The shallow water coral fans out into a wide network of branches, while the deep water coral grows tall ...

Poachers are believed to be responsible for taking a large sea fan coral from waters that are under environmental protection off Ivalino (野銀) village on Orchid Island (蘭嶼, also known as Lanyu), a ...

Pale Soft Coral and Sea Fan. Coral structures look like plants, but are actually groups of small, individual animals that live together in a colony. Corals, along with animals like sea anemones ...

The tiny breeding pair, which according to KQED's “Deep Look” YouTube video are no bigger than a paper clip when fully grown, were plucked from orange sea fan coral 80-feet under the surface of the ...

a little creature called the sea cucumber. Science reporter Ari Daniel has more. ARI DANIEL, BYLINE: Cody Clements is something of a coral gardener. CODY CLEMENTS: You can just break off a branch ...

Pink sea fan Although known as the pink sea fan, the horny coral can vary in colour from white to orange to deep pink Each is a colony of individual animals, or polyps, that share a hard skeleton ...

He was studying sea fans – the gorgonian corals found throughout the world’s oceans – when out popped a tiny seahorse that resembled a swimming chunk of coral. The species was duly named ...

A molecule found in coral is effective in fighting the type of virus that causes gastroenteritis, giving hope for the development of better treatments for the illness, according to new research.