Changing the way we manage Aotearoa New Zealand's oceans could save our biodiverse-rich, critically-endangered deep-water coral. Aotearoa New Zealand is a biodiversity hotspot for deepwater coral ...

Mote is also partnering with NOAA and the Department of the Interior to restore deep-water coral habitats damaged ... a shallow reef southeast of Bamboo Key near Marathon, and Ham Reef off of ...

New species of shark, sea butterfly, mud dragon, bamboo coral, water bear, octocoral ... submersibles and deep-sea robots up to 5000 meters below sea level to discover new species.

The issue has received scant attention until recently. In part, that's because the deep-water coral gardens are well-hidden from public view, too remote for scuba divers to reach, occupying niches ...

But this coral that forms most of this habitat is white, and it's naturally white because they don't have the photosynthetic algae in them that the shallow water corals do. We're much too deep for ...

is mainly made up of stony coral. The species, Desmophyllum pertusum, is mainly found in the ocean at 656 to 3,280 feet deep. At those depths, water is 39 F on average. Sowers said the cold-water ...

between 70% and 90% of coral reefs worldwide could be lost. Sowers said it’s not yet clear how the deep-water formations his team mapped will be affected, but like other corals, they are ...

New species of shark, sea butterfly, mud dragon, bamboo coral, water bear, octocoral ... submersibles and deep-sea robots up ...