Duygu Sevilgen uses extremely small sensors to record the fine details of coral skeletons and listen to their dialogue with ...
The distinctive movement seen in C. cyclolites suggests that free-living corals may have more complex body functions, similar to jellyfish — the evolutionary cousin of coral — than scientists ...
New research shows that the free-living coral Cycloseris cyclolites migrates toward blue light using a pulsed inflation ...
But scientists have observed a free-living mushroom coral, Cycloseris cyclolites, actively “walking” toward blue light waves in a way that’s reminiscent of the pulsed swimming motion of jellyfish, a ...
Time-lapse video shows how a mushroom coral polyp pulses and inflates, flinging its soft body into micro-hops to slowly move itself to a new location.