THE classification of corals based upon the structure of the hard or skeletal parts alone, such as has been used by zoologists in general since the publication of Milne-Edwards and Haime's “Histoire ...

Using an innovative new approach to sampling corals, researchers are now able to create maps of coral biochemistry that reveal with unprecedented detail the distribution of compounds that are integral ...

The world's biggest coral — an organism made up of about a billion polyps — is about three times bigger than the previous record-holder and was discovered by chance during an expedition off the ...