A new deep-sea coral species in the tropical western Pacific that resembles a highly recognizable character from Star Wars ...

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Scientists discovered a new deep-sea coral named Iridogorgia chewbacca, its shaggy branches resembling the iconic Wookiee ...

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Watling first saw the coral species aboard a submersible in 2006, he said. The research team took photographs of the colony and collected a piece of it as a sample, but it wasn’t until 2016 when the ...

A team of researchers, including an expert from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, discovered a new species of deep-sea coral ...

A new deep-sea coral species named Iridogorgia Chewbacca has been discovered. Researchers at the University of Hawai’i named the coral after Chewbacca due to its resemblance to the famous Wookiee. pic ...