"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.

Often highlighted as important ecological refuges, deep sections of coral reefs (30-60 m depth) can offer protection from the full force of climate change-related impacts, such as intensifying ...

Reporting from Orlando, Fla. — In the Atlantic Ocean off Florida’s coast, at 1,500 feet and deeper, the water is 45 degrees and pitch-black. Yet life thrives there. Scientists are just ...

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.

But why would deep water coral, which reside far from the sun’s harshest rays, share such flashy coloration with their shallow cousins? For a long time, researchers weren’t sure.

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Global hotspots of deep coral diversity. Peter Etnoyer April 28, 2008 coral week diversity Scleractinia. Figure reprinted from Cairns, 2007 in Bulletin of Marine Science. One of the central questions ...

Researchers discovered the coral gardens using a remotely operated vehicle known as SuBastian. ... Deep-Sea Coral Gardens Discovered by Researchers in Mysterious Underwater Canyons.

On the upper-continental slope, about 80 miles off the coast of Delacroix in the Gulf of Mexico, is a coral reef unlike those found in shallow, tropical waters. More than 1,200 feet deep, this ...

A spectacular new species of coral has been discovered thriving in veritable forests on the peaks of undersea mountains off the coast of the Pacific Northwest. IE 11 is not supported.

Deep freezing coral. As a cryo-preservationist, Hagedorn gets questions that border science fiction, where humans seek to preserve themselves for centuries.