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.

He identifies it as a mushroom cap jellyfish. “It’s not normal to see them around here as far as I know, but I’ve seen them in the northern gulf,” Bartleson said. “But we’ve been ...

Cycloseris cyclolites, a free-living mushroom coral species ... like the movement seen in jellyfish. Scientists claimed that the mechanism appears to be a widespread strategy for free-living ...

The ability of these migratory mushroom corals to distinguish between different wavelengths of light aligns ... Providing new insights into coral mobility mechanisms, the findings show just how ...