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 Lophelia Reef, located in the Finlayson Channel of B.C.'s Central Coast, was first discovered in 2021. The Lophelia Reef, the only live coral reef in Canada's Pacific waters, was discovered in ...

Scientists have mapped the largest coral reef deep in the ocean, stretching hundreds of miles off the U.S. Atlantic coast. While researchers have known since the 1960s that some coral were present ...

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, covering around 6.4 ...

“Lophelia reef is very important to the ecosystem, to the biodiversity of that specific area, it adds to the overall health of that area,” said Reid.

Alfonsino fish swim over a field of Lophelia pertusa in the massive reef discovered off the eastern U.S. Coast. Image courtesy of the NOAA Ocean Exploration, Windows to the Deep 2019 The world’s ...

VANCOUVER, BC, March 7, 2024 /CNW/ - Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), is taking measures to protect the unique and highly sensitive Lophelia Reef—also known by its Wakashan name ...

“Lophelia reef is very important to the ecosystem, to the biodiversity of that specific area; it adds to the overall health of that area,” said Reid. Advertisement 1.

Researchers have known since the 1960s that some coral were present off the Atlantic coast, but the reef’s size remained a mystery until new technology made it possible to map the ocean floor in 3D.

Fish swim amidst pink coral in the Lophelia Reef, located in the Finlayson Channel of the British Columbia coast, about 500 kilometres northwest of Vancouver, in an undated handout photo.

Fish swim amidst pink coral in the Lophelia Reef, located in the Finlayson Channel of the British Columbia coast, about 500 kilometres northwest of Vancouver, in an undated handout photo.

Fish swim amidst pink coral in the Lophelia Reef, located in the Finlayson Channel of the British Columbia coast, about 500 kilometres northwest of Vancouver, in an undated handout photo.