Found just off the coast of Goolboodi Island in Northeast Australia, this reef-building genus Porites coral measures about 34 feet in diameter — earning it the nickname Muga dhambi, or “big ...

Marine scientists are mapping porites boulders and bommies on the Ningaloo Reef New molecular tools will allow researchers to identify what species exist on the reef The research could give ...

Massive stony corals of the genus Porites swell to the surface, and new research published February 2 in Science suggests those located in the colder waters farthest south are growing better than ...

The massive coral belongs to the genus Porites and measures 34 feet (10.4 meters) wide and 17.4 feet (5.3 m) tall, making it the widest and sixth-tallest coral in the Great Barrier Reef.

The Porites (a genus of coral) specimen is located in the Palm Islands in Queensland, Australia. The Indigenous Manbarra people, traditional custodians of the area, named it Muga dhambi (big coral).

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 62, No. 1 (2017), pp. 217-234 (18 pages) Picoplankton foster essential recycling of nutrients in the oligotrophic waters sustaining coral reef ecosystems. Despite this ...

The researchers studied two dominant coral species in Kaneohe Bay in Oahu, Hawaii: rice coral, Montipora capitata, and finger coral, Porites compressa. Over the decade, these corals were subjected ...

Porites cf. lobata is a key reef-building coral in the tropical Indo-Pacific, providing habitats for many species. Credit Photo credit: Kharis Schrage, ©Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ...

Porites cf. lobata is a key reef-building coral that provides habitats for numerous species, including feather stars (comatulid crinoids) and fish.

Scientists in Australia have uncovered the widest and one of the tallest coral in the Great Barrier Reef, a 34-foot wide structure nicknamed 'Muga dhamb,' after the indigenous residents of Palm ...