- 0 item(s)
- £0.00 View
Pagination
News list
-
The Horniman Museum and Gardens and The Florida Aquarium team up to advance coral restoration
The Horniman Museum and Gardens has joined forces with The Florida Aquarium, based in Tampa, Florida, to save coral reefs by spawning (reproducing) corals in a lab.
-
Researchers build on coral spawning success
A team of UK aquatic biologists have induced coral spawning over a full reproductive cycle for the first time.
-
New textile display highlights the beauty and vulnerability of coral
A collection of multi-layered textile pieces will highlight the beauty and vulnerability of coral in 'Coral: Fabric of the Reef', a new display opening at the Horniman on Saturday 9 December.
-
Horniman’s animal stocktake – in pictures
Counting your stock should be as simple as 1, 2, 3 or ABC – but when that stands for alpacas, bees and a coral reef, things get a little trickier.
-
The Force is strong in Horniman baby corals
Scientists at the Horniman have settled newly spawned baby corals onto Star Wars models, and found they ‘prefer’ characters from the good side of the Force, rather than the dark side.
-
Horniman corals’ survival rate is over 1,000 times greater than in the wild
We are celebrating the first birthday of our captive-spawned corals with the news that, one year on, their survival rate is well over 1,000 times greater than in the wild.
-
UK-first – Coral IVF at the Horniman
A collection of corals have spawned at the Horniman resulting in a UK first – the successful in-vitro fertilisation of captive corals.
-
Corals on the move
A collection of live corals has travelled from South East Asia to South East London, as part of a pioneering project.
-
Horniman team create aquarium at Natural History Museum
Staff from our Aquarium have created, and are managing, a live aquarium featured in a new exhibition Coral Reef: Secret Cities of the Sea at the Natural History Museum.
-
The Indian Ocean comes to Forest Hill
The corals of the Chagos Islands are showcased in a new Aquarium display created by members of the UK Chagossian community.