Commonly known as black corals due to their ink-colored skeletons, these corals are staples of deep-sea ecosystems around the world. However, black corals remain enigmatic due to the challenges of ...

Because so few specimens of deep-sea black corals have been collected, and so many undiscovered species are likely still out there, there is also a lot to learn about the evolutionary tree of corals.

Credit: NOAA Scientists recently discovered the largest known deep-sea coral reef in ... mostly made up of a stony coral that’s usually found from about 650 to 3,300 feet underwater—depths where it’s ...

More than 200 species of deep-sea corals have been described on the Blake Plateau, including hard corals, sea fans, lace corals and black corals. They can form dense structures rising 600 feet in ...

Scientists on board a deep-sea expedition to the South Sandwich ... planet - the team also spotted snailfish eggs laid on a black coral, a previously unknown behaviour. They also captured the ...

Deep-sea coral restoration and research sites are being proposed to protect deep-sea habitats from bottom fishing gear in Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. “Throughout the world, we’ve been ...

In their paper published in the journal ZooKeys, the group describes how they found multiple examples of the fish while on an expedition that involved exploring deep-sea coral reefs off the coast ...

Researchers have discovered two new and unusual species of bacteria in deep-sea coral in the Gulf of Mexico. The discovery, announced in the journal Nature Communications, points to a type of life ...

Because so few specimens of deep-sea black corals have been collected, and so many undiscovered species are likely still out there, there is also a lot to learn about the evolutionary tree of corals.