For centuries, an extraordinary coral lay hidden beneath the Pacific Ocean’s surface near the Solomon Islands, growing ...
The world's biggest coral — an organism made up of about a billion polyps — is about three times bigger than the previous record-holder and was discovered by chance during an expedition off the ...
There are lots of different species of coral, a rich diversity of which can be found in the coral triangle where this latest ...
The world's largest coral has been found in the Solomon Islands, a remote nation made up of hundreds of small islands in the ...
The "mega" coral is 112-feet wide, 105-feet long and 18-feet high, making it larger than a blue whale, the world's largest animal.
"The decline of coral reefs is concerning, as it threatens not only biodiversity but also the safety of island communities, ...
From the surface, “it looked like a shipwreck,” said Molly Timmers, lead scientist of the Pristine Seas expedition. But the ...
Scientists say they've discovered a "mega coral" three times bigger than the previous record holder - so huge they initially ...
In a stunning discovery, the world’s largest coral has been found thriving in the Solomon Islands in the southwest Pacific ...
It’s more than 100 feet long, around 300 years old, made of nearly 1 billion little polyps and visible from space ...
A two-year experiment found that coral reefs could endure in heated water better than expected—with one huge caveat.