The enormous organism is bigger than a blue whale and made up of millions of genetically identical, tiny animals called ...
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 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 ...
Exclusive photos reveal a sprawling, 300-year-old coral near Solomon Islands, recently discovered by the National Geographic ...
For centuries, an extraordinary coral lay hidden beneath the Pacific Ocean’s surface near the Solomon Islands, growing ...
A group of scientists working aboard a research vessel in the southwest Pacific Ocean has discovered the world’s largest ...
A two-year experiment found that coral reefs could endure in heated water better than expected—with one huge caveat.
Climate change is decimating the likelihood of survival for a large portion of the world's coral reefs, according to new ...
In other cases, animals can appear to have simply disappeared — unless you know where to look. In 1956, researchers discovered a new species of marine worm that lives in coral burrows off the southern ...
The coral was discovered during an ongoing research expedition to the Solomon Islands ... the International Union for ...
Scientists said on Thursday they found what is believed to be the world's largest coral, which has been growing undisturbed ...
(AP Photo/Daniel Cole, File) FILE - A man swims along coral reefs off Verde Island, Batangas province, Philippines on Jan. 24 ...