For centuries, an extraordinary coral lay hidden beneath the Pacific Ocean’s surface near the Solomon Islands, growing ...

The behemoth coral, discovered in October in the Solomon Islands, is longer than a blue whale and older than the United States.

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 ...

There are lots of different species of coral, a rich diversity of which can be found in the coral triangle where this latest ...

The coral colony, of the species Pavona clavus, measuring 34 meters wide and 32 meters long, grew over three centuries and is visible from space. A team of scientists, including some Spaniards, has ...

Thousands of ships loaded with oil were sunk during the fierce sea battles of the Second World War. That means they’ve been ...

The ancient Greek thinker Anaximander lent his prodigious talents to pre-Socratic Greek philosophy, geography, geometry, and cosmology.

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 "mega" coral is 112-feet wide, 105-feet long and 18-feet high, making it larger than a blue whale, the world's largest animal.