"Many [deep-sea corals] live for hundreds of years, with some colonies living over 4,000 years," NOAA says, with latest discovery revealing nearly 84,000 individual coral mound peak features.

NOAA’s Deep Sea Coral Research and Technology Program maintains the National Database for Deep-Sea Corals and Sponges, which is an interactive map portal with more than 650,000 records. It can be ...

Scientists identified seven new species of bamboo coral discovered on a NOAA-funded mission in the deep waters of the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument. Six of these species may represent ...

Largest deep-sea coral reef: How it was discovered The reef is too deep to explore by scuba diving, and that's why the mapping was done using 31 multi-beam sonars, according to the news release.

Deep-sea corals are still poorly understood, NOAA said, but studying them can provide insight into their health and resiliency which can help scientists predict "the impacts of human activities on ...

Scientists working with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recently discovered a previously unknown coral reef off the US East Coast.; The 85-mile-long deep-sea reef is ...

“Some of the deep-water corals can live for 2,000 years or more,” said Gardner, who works for NOAA’s Southeast Fisheries Science Center with multiple offices across the southeastern U.S ...

This story was updated at 5:01 p.m. EDT. A proposed rule from NOAA Fisheries would bar fishermen from using gear that touches the ocean bottom at a California marine sanctuary to protect rare deep ...

A month ago, state regulators raised the alarm over silt from the Deep Dredge killing Miami corals. Now the feds are stepping in as well. According to documents obtained by New Times, the National ...

Northern star coral. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR) Federal regulators have signed off on new protections for thousands of square miles of deep-sea corals off New England.

Deep-sea corals only grow a few millimeters per year, according to NOAA. For comparison, a human fingernail grows an average of 3.5 millimeters per month. S.C.'s fishing industry ...