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 ...

Scientists have mapped the largest coral ... large rock shelf overhangs at the Blake Plateau off the southeastern coast of the U.S., in July 2019. The white coloring is healthy, as deep-sea ...

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 divers carefully snip small branches of corals with gloved hands. Their voices ...

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

The mysterious object was around 4 inches (10 centimeters) wide and appeared to be attached to a rock. When it was ... discovered a pair of pristine, deep-sea coral reefs near the Galápagos ...

with the disposal of mine waste in the deep sea putting biodiverse coral ecosystems at risk," the Metals Co. wrote on its website. However, environmental groups fear that large-scale deep-sea ...

Now, mining companies such as Canada’s the Metals Co., want to bring their deep sea harvesters or subsea collectors to the ocean floor and bulldoze across the sea bottom to grab these “rocks ...

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 ...

"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.