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During an expedition off the Solomon Islands, researchers accidentally discovered the world’s largest coral in the depths of ...

For centuries, it lay peacefully in the crystal-clear waters of the Solomon Islands, hidden from view. What scientists ...

Sometimes the last ‘s’ in LPS and SPS is also referred to as scleractinian so small polyp scleractinian, as all hard corals, belong to the order Scleractinia. Imagine any reef structure in shallow, ...

Researchers say the standalone structure has been growing for approximately 300 years from a "complex network" of tiny coral polyps. This distinguishes it from a coral reef, which consists of many ...

The 'Reef Adapt' ... Researchers Use the Sounds of Healthy Coral Reefs to Encourage Growth of a New Species of Coral Larvae Oct. 23, 2024 — Healthy coral reefs echo with a chorus of grunts and ...

Coral is comprised of tiny individual creatures called polyps, which form a connected hardened shell when living en masse in a colony. The average polyp grows to about a quarter of an inch.

Parts of the Great Barrier Reef have suffered the highest coral mortality on record, Australian research showed Tuesday, with ...