Decades of environmental threats—from bleaching events and pollution to the catastrophic outbreak of stony coral tissue loss ...

A closeup of a well-preserved Late Holocene hard pillar coral (Dendrogyra cylindrus), now genetically extinct along the Florida reef tract due to a disease outbreak in 2014.

francoisecabada-blanco-dcylindrus_ssc The pillar coral is one of 26 corals in the Atlantic Ocean listed as critically endangered Countries are meeting in Montreal, Canada, to try to agree targets ...

Two Critically Endangered coral species: Staghorn Coral (Acropora cervicornis) and Pillar Coral (Dendrogyra cylindrus) at Roatán, Honduras.