The National Geographic Society’s Pristine Seas expedition has discovered the largest known coral in the world, spanning a ...

A videographer discovered the world's largest coral reef ever recorded in the southwest Pacific Ocean, a massive structure ...

Scientists have discovered the largest single coral ever recorded – so big that they had originally thought it was a ...

Scientists say they've discovered a "mega coral" three times bigger than the previous record holder - so huge they initially ...

A two-year experiment found that coral reefs could endure in heated water better than expected—with one huge caveat.

The enormous organism is bigger than a blue whale and made up of millions of genetically identical, tiny animals called ...

It’s more than 100 feet long, around 300 years old, made of nearly 1 billion little polyps and visible from space ...

From the surface, “it looked like a shipwreck,” said Molly Timmers, lead scientist of the Pristine Seas expedition. But the ...

In 2023, the Caribbean recorded its worst coral bleaching mortality since 1987. By October, mass bleaching affected over 95% ...

The study shows that coral reefs have the potential to adapt and survive in changing climates if carbon emissions are reduced ...

If carbon emissions are curbed and local stressors are addressed, coral reefs have the potential to persist and adapt over ...