A single ReefSeed unit spawned 3 million larvae during a single spawning season, which they turned into 10,000 juvenile ...

Plunge into the shallows off the Florida Keys, Hawaiʻi or the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and you are likely to meet a ...

Coral spawning is a critical time of year for conservation scientists. It's during this time that coral eggs and sperm are collected to be studied and artificially grown in labs.

Depending on the species of coral, the release can last hours or only a few minutes. According to NOAA, the timing of the release is crucial as some of the eggs and sperm (also known as gametes ...

So, coral reefs are on their way to becoming probably the first global ecosystem -- that we'll lose as a result of climate change. So, you know, we-- we have no time to lose. Produced by Andy Court.

The coral eggs will turn into a pear-shaped larva, spin around the container, and then grow longer and more rod-like before looking for a place to settle down.

Fertilized eggs turn into coral larvae — tiny and squishy free-swimming organisms — which eventually settle on the seafloor. There they metamorphose, like a caterpillar to a butterfly, ...

During the same period, turf algae—small, fast-growing plants that can smother coral to death—substantially increased from covering 25 percent of the bay floor in 2021 to 79 percent in 2022.

Coral reefs, some of the most stunningly beautiful marine ecosystems on Earth, are dying. Ninety percent of them will likely be gone by 2050 due to rising ocean temperatures and pollution.

The coral eggs will turn into a pear-shaped larva, spin around the container, and then grow longer and more rod-like before looking for a place to settle down.