What is the staghorn coral? Like its name suggests, staghorn coral is a species of coral that looks a bit like the antlers of a male deer. Capable of growing into thickets up to five feet high and ...

Stephanie Rosales (left) and Ana Palacio (right) evaluating staghorn coral genotypes during their exposure to elevated ...

Prior research has shown that climate change has been heavily impacting green staghorn coral, which create shallow reefs—they ...

Instead, they prioritized staghorn coral, which resemble skinny deer antlers, and elkhorn coral, which look like thick moose antlers. These corals can grow quickly and can asexually form new ...

Coral diseases, particularly in the Caribbean, have caused major declines in coral populations, especially affecting staghorn ...

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 ...

Coral restoration practitioners and environmental enthusiasts recently marked the fifth anniversary of the Florida Keys ...

While some coral genotypes displayed resistance to either high nutrient levels or disease, none were resistant to both ...

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 ...

Coral diseases, particularly in the Caribbean, have caused major declines in coral populations, especially affecting staghorn (Acropora cervicornis) and Elkhorn (A. palmata) corals, which play a ...

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 ...