The animals prefer water depths between 15 and 100 feet. Like other corals in the Acropora genus, staghorn corals use tiny, stinging tentacles to snatch and eat small aquatic animals known as ...

Minister for National Development Desmond Lee with Dr Jane Goodall as she kisses an Acropora coral at the launch of the 100k Corals Initiative in St John’s Island National Marine Laboratory on ...

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Tropical corals once dotted the coast of southern England. Some of the earliest evidence of the staghorn coral, Acropora, was found on a beach on the Isle of Wight. Today, this is one of the most ...

The coral variant Acropora squarrosa, which is native to areas around the Kii Peninsula and the Shikoku region, has created a vibrant, tropics-like scene near the Boso Peninsula at the entrance to ...

This model incorporates new experimental data on the thermal and evolutionary biology of common thermally sensitive corals in the Acropora genus, and simulates population trajectories under a ...

Multiple Acropora coral species spawned simultaneously for about an hour from around 9:30 p.m. on July 7, and a countless number of egg-sperm bundles were released into the water. “It was so mys ...

The declines follow rapid recovery of fast-growing corals seen since the back-to-back mass bleaching events in 2016-2017. Fast growing plate Acropora corals, sometimes informally referred to as ...