"Many [deep-sea corals] live for hundreds of years, with some colonies living over 4,000 years," NOAA says, with latest discovery revealing nearly 84,000 individual coral mound peak features.

We started at about 900 meters depth and climbed up the side of one of these large coral mounds almost 100-plus meters, which is, you know, 300, 350 feet up, to the top of the coral mound.

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Scientists have mapped the largest coral reef deep in the ocean, stretching hundreds of miles off the U.S. coast. Skip to main content. Open Main Menu Navigation.

Taken by the deep-sea ROV Global Explorer, this image offered the scientists the first glimpse of the black coral species in its natural habitat. Image courtesy of Illuminating Biodiversity in ...

The coral mounds extend across much of the Blake Plateau, an area between the North American continental shelf and the deep ocean basin along the southeastern U.S. up to North Carolina.

Amid the incredible areas is a 160-mile-long dense coral reef known as the Million Mounds that stretches from Florida to Georgia and is the world’s largest known continuous deep-sea coral reef.

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The first deep-sea coral reefs in the Galápagos were discovered in April, revealing the ancient structures not previously known to have existed in the region.

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