“Some of the deep-water corals can live for 2,000 years or more,” said Gardner, who works for NOAA’s Southeast Fisheries Science Center with multiple offices across the southeastern U.S ...

A German-American research team has discovered two highly unusual bacterial species in the tissue of two deep-sea corals from the Gulf of Mexico. These previously unknown coral symbionts have an ...

Cold-water corals, many of which live in the dark and nutrient-poor deep sea, are thought to rely on bacteria to convert nutrients or obtain energy from chemical compounds.