NASA shared a black-and-white image from the Curiosity rover’s ChemCam Remote Micro Imager that showed a small, coral-like rock formation on the floor of Gale Crater. The telescopic photo, taken on ...

If you’ve already visited Utah’s “Mighty Five,” you’ll want to check off Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park next.

DIEGO GARCIA is a typical atoll; a narrow strip of land varying in width from a mile to 30 yards, nearly completely encircles a lagoon of irregular shape. The lagoon is open to the ocean towards the ...

The ring-shaped coral islands known as atolls, like this one in the Maldives Islands in the Indian Ocean, may trace their formation to sea levels repeatedly rising and falling over hundreds of ...

CAPTAIN WHARTON in his interesting paper satisfactorily explains a condition of reef-growth previously little known and but imperfectly understood. I was pleased to learn that Mr. Bourne's ...

CHANCES OF THE RACE HAPPENING WILL GO UP. IT’S A HOSPITAL AND AN ATTRACTION, AND IT’S ONLY AT SEAWORLD. THE THE ZERO CORAL RESCUE CENTER. ALL RIGHT, CONGRESSMAN DARREN CUT THE RIBBON TODAY ON THE NEW ...

Coral eggs are rich in waxy fat, which provides energy during development, and buoyancy, helping them float to the ocean surface during spawning. Photo by Heyward & Negri, AIMS Once a year, shortly ...

New research on the formation and evolution of coral atolls may disprove one of Charles Darwin's most controversial theories. Darwin's 1842 theory said that coral atolls -- the ring-shaped reefs that ...

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