At first glance, the elkhorn coral looks like an underwater hand reaching for the sky. One of the most important corals in the Caribbean, it provides habitat for many species, and its rapid growth ...

Yet due to global warming, already-delicate coral reefs throughout the Caribbean and along the coast of Florida are vanishing at unprecedented rates. Thanks to a scientific petition the Center ...

To help rare elkhorn corals survive in Florida waters, coral researchers should place them in shallow ocean locations with fast currents, scientists at the University of Miami NOAA Cooperative ...

To help rare elkhorn corals survive in Florida waters, coral researchers should place them in shallow ocean locations with fast currents, scientists explained in a recent publication. To help rare ...

Home to silky sharks, myriad fish, and the critically endangered elkhorn coral, the reef teems with life and vibrancy. This story appears in the November 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine.

These assisted gene flow studies produced 600 new genetic-assorted individuals of the threatened elkhorn coral Acropora palmata. As of early 2024, there are only about 150 elkhorn individuals ...

“I’m not sure they make that claim, but I haven’t seen that before in the literature.” Elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata), found in reefs throughout the Caribbean coast, grows in long, fractal-like ...

Yet due to global warming, already-delicate coral reefs throughout the Caribbean and along the coast of Florida are vanishing at unprecedented rates. Thanks to a scientific petition the Center ...