The latest study has revealed how the mushroom coral uses rolling, sliding, or pulsing movements in pursuit of optimal light conditions. Coral inflates and deflates its tissue in ...
But there’s another, lesser-known and understudied kind of coral that’s completely solitary. And some of these animals, known as mushroom corals, can walk. “They’re very little,” said Brett Lewis, a ...
For more than 150 years, scientists have debated whether Prototaxites—which stood roughly 24 feet tall and 3 feet wide—were an early lichen or fungus, like a “giant mushroom” ...