When hundreds of eerily perfect circles were discovered on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, theories abounded about what ...

The research team studied several colonies of two soft coral species ... Vohsen et al, Discovery of deep-sea coral symbionts ...

Soft corals make thousands of drug-like compounds that could work as anti-inflammatory agents, antibiotics, anti-cancer therapeutics, and more. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible ...

Doha: The Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MoECC) has announced the discovery of a new type of soft coral from the ...

In a new study, scientists report that deep-sea corals that lived 540 million ... invertebrates called octocorals, that includes soft corals, pushes back the previous oldest dated example of ...

A Boston University led team of scientists analyzed a Pacific Ocean seamount that is teeming with biologically diverse corals ...

But historians aren't sure how deep their knowledge went of ... Slender cardinalfish gleam against a gor- gonian, or sea fan, on a northerly reef. The soft coral’s vivid color likely suggests ...

They were covered by deep sea animals, including barnacles, brittle stars and predatory worms. To the team's surprise they found some species of coral had settled onto the buoys, including several ...