I went diving in a place where the map said there was a shipwreck and then I saw something,” said the cinematographer who made the stunning discovery.

On Thursday, as a National Geographic expedition was exploring the waters around the Solomon Islands, its members spotted ...

A group of scientists working aboard a research vessel in the southwest Pacific Ocean has discovered the world’s largest ...

The enormous organism is bigger than a blue whale and made up of millions of genetically identical, tiny animals called ...

Scientists said on Thursday they found what is believed to be the world's largest coral, which has been growing undisturbed ...

It is made up of nearly a billion genetically identical coral polyps that work together in the colony as if they are one organism. Although the newly discovered coral is in excellent health ...

Coral larvae assimilate more nitrogen and trade it to their algae symbionts for glucose under elevated temperatures ...

The gigantic standalone coral is about 600 feet in circumference and has grown uninterrupted for three centuries, according ...

The world's biggest coral — an organism made up of about a billion polyps — is about three times bigger than the previous ...

At 34 metres wide, the organism is made up of a network of coral polyps, tiny individual creatures. Eric Brown, coral scientist for the Pristine Seas expedition to the Solomon Islands, said ...

At 34 metres wide, the organism is made up of a network of coral polyps, tiny individual creatures. It was discovered by scientists working aboard a research vessel in the southwest Pacific Ocean ...