For much of the year, the world's largest fringing reef is also home to the world's largest fish. Hundreds of whale sharks visit Western Australia's Ningaloo Reef annually, with as many as 60 ...

Northern Hemisphere summer ever recorded, only narrowly surpassing the record set in 2023. The trend, driven largely by human ...

But some whale sharks at Ningaloo Reef have displayed unusual white patches on their skin. Dr. Mark Meekan, a lead researcher from The University of Western Australia’s Ocean Institute ...

At 300-years-old, the coral measures 34m wide, 32m long and 5.5m high - meaning it is bigger than a blue whale! Scientists on ... organism rather than a coral reef. It was found by scientists ...

It is a conglomerate of individual creatures called coral polyps that have grown over 300 years. Instead of a coral reef like the Great ... on Earth–the blue whale–and can be seen from space.

It’s three times larger than the previous record-breaker in American Samoa, according to Pristine Seas, and longer than a blue whale ... can also be seen. A coral, or reef-forming organism ...

With exceptionally clear visibility of up to 131 feet, an average sea temperature of 85.5 degrees Fahrenheit, bucket-list opportunities to swim with whale ... a house reef (a coral reef easily ...