Elkhorn coral babies, affectionately called “Flonduran” corals by researchers at the Rosenstiel School at the University of ...

In a groundbreaking, first-of-its-kind milestone for coral restoration, scientists from the University of Miami Rosenstiel ...

If a coral could be charismatic, then the Elkhorn coral is one of them. They're called Elkhorn for a reason. They have very large branches that look like the horns on an elk.

In the 1980s, the staghorn and elkhorn coral populations declined by 97% due to white band disease, which kills the coral’s tissues, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Dead elkhorn coral are seen Feb. 9 at Carysfort Reef, northeast of Key Largo, Fla. (ben edmonds/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Record hot seawater killed more than three-quarters ...

According to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, elkhorn coral, with its large, splayed branch structure, is fast growing and has, over the last 10,000 years, been “one of the three most important ...

On July 20, a team from the Coral Restoration Foundation ventured to Sombrero Reef in the Lower Keys to collect tissue from wild elkhorn colonies to add to gene banks for safeguarding and found a ...

This image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows dead elkhorn coral on Feb. 9, 2024, at Carysfort Reef, northeast of Key Largo, Fla. Record hot seawater killed more ...

This image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows dead elkhorn coral on Feb. 9, 2024, at Carysfort Reef, northeast of Key Largo, Fla. Record hot seawater killed more ...

Only 22% of the 1,500 repopulated staghorn coral that they surveyed was still alive, NOAA said. Only about 5% of 1,000 replanted elkhorn corals were alive.

Record hot seawater killed more than three-quarters of human-cultivated coral that scientists had placed in the Florida Keys in recent years in an effort to prop up a threatened species that’s ...