"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.

Deep-sea corals from about 400 meters off the coast of the Hawaiian Islands are much older than once believed and some may be the oldest living marine organisms known to man. Researchers have ...

Living Coral has been chosen by the Pantone Color Institute as its 2019 color of the year. It's the color of underwater reefs hanging on for dear life. The sky at dusk.

Why do people care about coral reefs? Why does their damage cause such concern and outrage? What drives people to go to great ...

This latest type of black coral is unique in that it thrives in warm waters such as the Red Sea, which has a temperature of 22 °C. Scientists were aiming to explore deep-sea ecosystems of the ...

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.

Coral bleaching isn’t just an ocean crisis. Here’s how the global event endangers food security, local jobs—and the land ...

Already scientists have discovered more than 3,300 different species of deep-sea corals. ... When people think about coral and coral reefs, they usually think about crystal clear, ...

The exquisite beauty of the more than 200 species of coral, living in crystal clear waters of the northern Red Sea in temperatures that can top 85 degrees Fahrenheit, has made the area a scuba ...

Deep-sea corals are the oldest living animals with a skeleton in the seas, claims new research that found a 4,265-year-old coral species off the coast of Hawaii.

The massive 2010 oil spill damaged or killed coral in the Gulf of Mexico. Now some of the $20 billion settlement is helping researchers learn how to help the coral recover.