The coral Iridogorgia chewbacca, found in the tropical Pacific, has long branches, and its DNA confirms that it is a new ...

While it’s not helping fly the Millennium Falcon, marine biologists have discovered a new type of deep-sea coral in the ...

Part I. The Natural History Quest, 1600-1900. 1. The coral reef enigma ; 2. The scientific revolution of the 17th century ; 3. Discovery of the polyp ; 4. Origin and structure of coral reefs ; 5. The ...

Chewbacca, everyone’s favourite Wookiee. A type of coral, it was first discovered on the seabed in Hawaii and then seen again near the Mariana Trench.As well as his characteristic growl, Chewbacca is ...

An influential paradigm in coral reef ecology is that fishing causes trophic cascades through reef fish assemblages, resulting in reduced herbivory and thus benthic phase shifts from coral to algal ...

For Les Watling, ecologist and professor emeritus at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, the name for a new species of ...