But more than a decade of mapping and exploration "revealed one of the largest deep-sea coral reef habitats found to date anywhere in the world," NOAA Ocean Exploration operations chief Kasey ...

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 ...

But in recent months, researchers have discovered vast landscapes of thriving corals in deeper waters surrounding the equatorial islands. In April, scientists documented the first pristine deep ...

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Temple University biology professor Erik Cordes about the discovery of the world's largest known deep-sea coral habitat. Now we want to take you to the bottom of the ...

Scientists have found the world’s largest-known habitat of deep-sea corals off the Southeast coast and a significant portion lies just 90 miles offshore from Georgia. The nearly continuous ...

A new deep-sea mapping project has revealed near-continuous reefs of cold-water corals spanning an area the size of Vermont just off the southeast U.S. coastline. When you purchase through links ...

Credit: NOAA Scientists recently discovered the largest known deep-sea coral reef in the world. It’s called Million Mounds, and it stretches from Miami, Florida, to Charleston, South Carolina, ...

For the last decade or so, Dr. Sowers and crew have been centering their studies around deep-sea coral along the Blake Plateau, off the U.S. coast between North Carolina and Florida. Much of it ...

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 ...

The notion of "peering into the deep" is evident on multiple levels. Spatially, the researchers captured the three-dimensional movement of fish during foraging on the coral reef using calibrated ...

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.

For long-term storage, some corals could end up in the deep freezer. Scientists are working on preserving corals by cryogenically freezing them. In a new study, a team from the Smithsonian's ...