Colonies of hard corals in a portion of Davao Gulf are now dead, a situation attributed by a marine scientist to the construction of the Chinese-funded P23-billion bridge called ...
These then become building blocks of coral reefs. Hard corals are of two types: LPS and SPS. These stand for large polyp stony and small polyp stony, though LPS are sometimes referred to as long polyp ...
It is a conglomerate of individual creatures called coral polyps that have grown over 300 ... with over 490 known hard and soft coral species. A group of scientists working aboard a research ...