A typical coral reef is made of many different coral colonies ... lies one of the world’s largest sea creatures. Roughly the size of two basketball courts, it’s neither a whale nor a giant ...
In the warm blue waters of the Solomon Islands, an island chain in the South Pacific, lies one of the world’s largest sea ... creatures,” Jupiter said. The discovery comes at a time when coral ...
Even a 1ºC increase in sea surface temperature can stress ... Almost every phylum of living creature can be found living on coral reefs, with over 800 species of corals alone (Vernon 1995).
will create a diverse environment for reefs and species that rely on them. It might look like a plant, but coral is actually an animal! Coral, or polyops as they're also called, are closely related to ...