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.

New research shows that the free-living coral Cycloseris cyclolites migrates toward blue light using a pulsed inflation ...

With time-lapse video, scientists show how tiny mushroom ... coral helped it move, but very, very slowly.CreditCredit...Lewis et al., 2025, PLOS One One side of the aquarium had a sliver of white ...

Corals might appear stationary, but different species are capable of moving more than just their branches. In a new study, the mushroom coral ... response to blue and white light to see which ...

a sliver of white light, similar to the brightness of shallow waters, and one of blue light, like the deeper areas of water. The mushroom corals tended to move toward the blue light. Science ...

Cycloseris cyclolites was also shown to exhibit a strong preference for blue light, with 86.7 per cent of the corals moving towards blue light sources, compared to just 20 per cent for white light.

with 86.7% of the corals moving towards blue light sources, compared to just 20% for white light. The ability of these migratory mushroom corals to distinguish between different wavelengths of ...

Corals aren’t necessarily known for their fancy footwork — or even having feet. But scientists have observed a free-living mushroom coral ... testing the corals’ response to blue and white wavelengths ...

A new study has found that the free-living mushroom coral responds to ... with a strong preference for blue and white light. Such free-living corals seem to be using this previously unseen ...

Corals aren’t necessarily known for their fancy footwork — or even having feet. But scientists have observed a free-living mushroom coral ... response to blue and white wavelengths ...

Now scientists have discovered that mushroom coral are real ... When given a choice, most of the corals moved towards blue light compared to white light. Their ability to tell the difference ...