The minerals that are being targeted form a critical part of the sea floor, and the sea floor is what life attaches to in the ...

By Liz Kimbrough In the twilight depths of the Gulf of Mexico, about as deep down as a football field is long, U.S. Navy ...

“Deep-sea coral have tentacles that can manually bring ... In one case, the team sets up tiny rock tiles for the baby coral ...

Deep-sea mining occurs in waters 200 meters (660 feet) deep and beyond. In the case of Solwara 1, the aim is to find and harvest copper and gold in the rocks found ... such as the coral reefs ...

Ocean explorers have discovered two pristine, deep-sea coral reefs near the ... detailed maps of the newly discovered coral reefs, which encrust vertical rock faces spanning depths between 1,200 ...

A large bamboo coral holding benthic ctenophores, barnacles, a sea star ... pectoral fins braced against both rock and sand. Documented at 1430 meters deep on Dive 696 while exploring a newly ...

Coastal species like frogfish, which live in diverse and productive coral reef environments, exhibited much lower rates of evolutionary change than their counterparts in the deep sea. "The idea ...

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 ...

When I‘d stepped onto the Coral Sea, a boat operated by Stardust ... Before you get any ideas, I am not a deep-sea-fishing savant. My success was almost entirely due to the help of the crew ...

"Deep-sea coral have tentacles that can manually bring ... In one case, the team sets up tiny rock tiles for the baby coral to grow on, as research has shown that they like a stable surface.