When pillar coral was proposed for listing under the Endangered Species Act, coral biologists began a survey and assessment of all known colonies on the Florida reef tract. That was in 2013.

Pillar coral with a threespot damselfish. By USFWS. The National Marine Fisheries Service issued a final rule on Monday to change the status of one coral species from threatened to endangered under ...

TAMPA (CBSMiami) -- Scientific history is being made at the Florida Aquarium in Tampa as endangered Atlantic pillar coral have spawned for the first time ever, in a lab setting.

Pillar coral with a threespot damselfish. By USFWS. On Friday NOAA announced that it is delaying protections for pillar coral. The 60-day delay means that the effective date of the pillar coral ...

Pillar coral, whose clusters of spiky fingers appear to reach up from the sea bed, is "reproductively extinct" off the Florida coast, said Keri O'Neil, chief coral scientist at the Florida Aquarium.

Pillar coral isn't doing well on its own — it's very hard to find juveniles at all-- and scientists don't know exactly why. Enlarge this image.

Pillar coral are now classified as almost extinct since the remaining male and female clusters are too far apart to reproduce. Pillar coral in the Flordia Aquarium greenhouse in Tampa, Florida ...

WASHINGTON— The National Marine Fisheries Service proposed today to change the status of the pillar coral, a species found in Florida waters and elsewhere in the Caribbean, from threatened to ...

Pillar coral, whose clusters of spiky fingers appear to reach up from the sea bed, is "reproductively extinct" off the Florida coast, says Keri O'Neil, chief coral scientist at the Florida Aquarium.

Pillar coral ‘critically endangered’ following 80% drop in population International researchers, including from the University of Portsmouth, have carried out a review of the risk of ...

A few days after the August full moon, a team of divers enters the water off the Lower Keys.They're looking to make babies. Specifically, baby pillar… ...