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The standalone structure, formed from a "complex network" of tiny coral polyps, has likely been growing for 300 years or more, the researchers said. At about 111 feet wide and 104 feet long ...

Visible from space, this titanic colony is home to nearly one billion coral polyps. These tiny, genetically identical organisms work together to form a single entity capable of surviving in an ...

Visible from space, this titanic colony is home to nearly one billion coral polyps. These tiny, genetically identical ...

The coral, identified as Pavona clavus, is a single, standalone structure, unlike the sprawling ... It's made up of a network of polyps, which are tiny soft-bodied creatures related to anemones ...

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.

Scientists have discovered one of the largest known sea creatures – a coral the size of two basketball courts – off the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific. At such a critical moment in US history, ...

“The gigantic organism is a complex network of coral polyps — tiny individual creatures ... is a network of many coral colonies — this structure is a standalone coral that has grown ...

The coral is a standalone structure, unlike a reef which is built ... is a communal organism comprising nearly one billion animals called polyps that make up a larger structure “about the ...

When team members initially spotted the structure, they thought it ... that local communities rely on for food. The polyps that form this enormous coral come from larvae that settled on the ...