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Nov. 14 (UPI) --Scientists said on Thursday they found what is believed to be the world's largest coral, which has been growing undisturbed in the Solomon Islands for possibly 300 years. A research ...

A remote coral reef system in Papua New Guinea's Northern Bismarck Sea has shown remarkable resilience against global ...

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Museum researchers reconstructed the evolutionary history of stony corals over the past 460 million years, providing insights ...

When researchers first saw a colossal coral estimated to be hundreds of years old off the Solomon Islands, they thought it was a possible shipwreck. The National Geographic Society’s Pristine Seas ...

Scientists say they have discovered the world's largest coral — measuring longer than a blue whale — on an expedition in Solomon Islands. A crew of National Geographic's Pristine Seas marine ...