The largest area found has been nicknamed "Million Mounds" by scientists, NOAA said, and is mostly made up of stony, cold-water coral known as Desmophyllum pertusum – previously called Lophelia ...

The mound region is made up of cold-water coral mounds, which are corals "shaped like bumps or pinnacles on the seafloor and can range in height from about ten feet to hundreds of feet tall, but ...

A new study of deep-sea coral reefs indicates that humans may be having a much more significant impact on them than previously thought. According to a report from the Irish Examiner, researchers ...

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 ...

This is the location of the world's largest deep-water coral reef complex, the "Mauritanian Wall," which extends for at least 580 kilometers, with a height between 80 and 100 meters.

Florida's Coral Reef, the only coral reef system in the continental United States and the third-largest barrier reef ecosystem in the world, is a shallow-water reef. This deep-sea one is ...

Since 1984, five specimens of the new species have been found in the waters of Vanuatu and New Caledonia, according to a study.

Unlike shallower, warm-water reefs that thrive on sunlight, deep-water reefs are chilly, dark and deep. Temperatures in these reefs range from a brisk 39 to 54 degrees Fahrenheit, and they can be ...

Vast colonies of living coral are being found in the deep ocean off the West Coast, fragile and slow-growing habitat for sea creatures and an important hunting ground for commercial fishing. Now ...

The Blake Plateau cold-water coral province is a vast deep-sea reef habitat about 100 miles southeast of Charleston. At an expansive 6.4 million acres, with a coral-dense center of about 1.5 ...

Partnering with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Department of the Interior to develop and test methods to restore middle and deep water benthic coral habitats damaged ...