Mycologists in the United Kingdom have grown extremely excited after the discovery of a rare mushroom species in Dorset ... Andy Knott found the crown-tipped coral mushroom — otherwise known ...

He and colleagues have watched a little mushroom coral of a different species turn over after an hour of just lying there, then three hours of wriggling – then a sudden flip. But how?

But not all coral species want to be tied down forever; according to the The New York Times, adult mushroom corals “walk” to new destinations, and experts are now closer to understanding how ...

Cycloseris cyclolites, a free-living mushroom coral species, responds to specific types of light by “walking” towards it. The latest study has revealed how the mushroom coral uses rolling ...

A mushroom coral’s incremental movement may seem inconsequential ... But such creeping has served the species well for hundreds of millions of years. “At their scale, they’re so little ...