A new species of coral named after the “Star Wars” character Chewbacca was found in waters off Molokai as well as near the Mariana Trench. “Normally the branches are stiff and they stick out from the ...

Submarine technology has led to discoveries of new species of black coral, Leiopathes glaberrima, off the coast of Hawaii. Using radiocarbon dating, scientists estimate the new species to be 4,265 ...

KANEOHE BAY (Island News) -- Long term research on coral in Kaneohe Bay is unleashing additional insight and perspective. Facing rising concerns including global warming, it's still widely agreed ...

Hawaii has plenty of gorgeous coral reefs that snorkelers love to explore, but the science behind the reefs is just as ...

In a breakthrough study published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers in the Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) at the University of Hawai‘i (UH) at Mānoa ...

HONOLULU -- Like a deceptively dreamy blanket of snow, a voracious invader is spreading through Hawaii's deep reefs. The snowflake coral grows so explosively that its white, gelatinous polyps are ...

For Les Watling, ecologist and professor emeritus at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, the name for a new species of deep-sea coral—Iridogorgia chewbacca—was intuitive from the start. Everyone who ...