"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.

A group of scientists were able to map the largest deep-sea coral reef to date. ... Desmophyllum pertusum, is mainly found in the ocean at 656 to 3,280 feet deep. At those depths, ...

Exploring the Deep Sea Coral Reefs That Sit on Ocean Mountains. Published Dec 19, 2018 at 4:50 AM EST Updated Dec 19, 2018 at 4:41 PM EST. By Alan Williams and Nic Bax . Newsweek Is A Trust ...

Black coral is usually found in the depths of the ocean. Other species are not usually abundant in the Red Sea, but this new one is. OceanX managed to gather samples from hundreds of colonies that ...

An alfonsino fish swims above Lophelia pertusa coral off the southeastern coast of the U.S., in June 2019. Scientists have mapped the largest coral reef deep in the ocean, off the U.S. Atlantic Coast.

Scientists have long believed that the waters of the Central and Northeast Pacific Ocean were inhospitable to deep-sea scleractinian coral, but a Florida State University professor's discovery of ...

Dense thickets of the reef-building coral Desmophyllum pertusum make up most of the deep-sea coral reef habitat found on the Blake Plateau in the Atlantic Ocean. The white coloring is healthy ...

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 ...

Deep sea coral habitat likely to get protection by closure of fisheries off NorCal coast A man and child explore the rocky Monterey Bay shoreline on a summer day at Lovers Point State Marine ...

Soft coral species in the deep sea exhibit bioluminescence, which researchers studied using remote-controlled underwater rovers. Many animals can glow in the dark. Fireflies famously blink on ...

Mining conducted on the floors of deep seas could create "dark oxygen" containing metals that could impact the quality of ...