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 ...

The coloration of the black dwarfgoby is unlike any displayed by the 134 other known goby species, according to the study "Eviota vader, a new western Pacific dwarfgoby from Papua New Guinea." (M.V.

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 ...