If you’re swimming across a thriving coral reef, you may mistakenly believe you floated upon a giant underwater human brain. Brain coral is a hard coral, also known as a stony coral or reef builder.

By Ruth Kamnitzer This May, divers found stony coral tissue loss disease on corals in Laughing Bird Caye National Park, ...

Large pieces of brain coral are washing ashore on Texas beaches, likely due to storms or other underwater disturbances. Brain coral, a slow-growing hard coral, forms important reef habitats in the ...

Their orange fans sway gracefully with the ocean ... make them captivating to observe. Brain corals exhibit a distinctive convoluted pattern reminiscent of the human brain. Their intricate ...

Wild and restored staghorns, wild star corals and brain corals had begun to pale or ... of a transplanted staghorn shows the normal healthy orange-brown color. Photo by Don Rhodes So far, Hesley ...

And there we were quite pleased to see a number of living colonies of elkhorn and staghorn coral, which, when they're healthy, are this really nice, rich, beautiful tan, orange and brown color.

Several meters underwater off the coast of Bonaire, a small island in the south Caribbean, Danielle de Kool floated in place in front of a large head of boulder brain coral. The pattern across its ...

Beachcombers along the Texas coast have been encountering an unusual sight—large chunks of Brain Coral washing ashore. These fascinating coral fragments, named for their distinctive maze-like ...

Pilots set the cabin temperature to 77 degrees. But 14 hours is a long time, even for sturdy coral. Baker was confident the two species of brain coral would survive the trip, but he was less ...

Cailyn Joseph, a PhD student in Andrew Baker's lab, organizes brain and elkhorn coral in Honduras before the trip to Miami. MIAMI — Off the northern coast of Honduras, thick stands of endangered ...