Victoria Glynn’s illustrations show the complex relationships between the coral animal, and the algae and bacteria that live with the coral. Taken together, this is called the coral holobiont. To ...

Tabulata and Rugosa are orders of extinct corals that have been taxonomically described for more than 170 years. They were among the main reef builders in the Palaeozoic era (which spanned 541 million ...

Healthy coral reefs are one of the most productive and biodiverse marine ecosystems on the planet. They are oases in crystal-clear waters that are almost devoid of nutrients — the equivalent of ocean ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Although tropical reefs might look like inanimate rock, these colorful seascapes are built by tiny jellyfish-like animals called corals. While adult corals build solid structures ...

When Victoria Glynn came to Panama to study the effects of extreme ocean temperatures on coral reefs at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) as a pre-doctoral fellow in professor Rowan ...