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 ...

and pristine assemblages of cold-water corals in the world. Alaska corals form the basis of a rich and diverse undersea ecosystem on the otherwise mainly barren seafloor, and harbor a high abundance ...

Although NOAA Fisheries will not review the status of the Alaska cold-water coral species at this time, the agency is encouraging interested parties to continue to gather data that will assist ...

"They are formed over long time periods out of the skeletal material of cold-water 'stony corals' and also sediments that are trapped by the coral rubble material." When living corals are present ...

Alaska's rare coral gardens are ... where federal scientists in 2002 discovered coral gardens scattered along the Aleutian chain. The cold water coral gardens, similar to those found in the ...

A rare cold water ... coral ecosystem. André Freiwald reports on a heavily calcified Lophelia coral with orange-red polyps and gorgonias, which, beside the reef-building stony corals, formed ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - An environmental group is petitioning the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to list 43 cold-water corals ... structure to tropical coral reefs.

A new study warns that cold-water corals, also known as deep-water ... it held pieces of stony coral that lived in the cold, sunless depths of the sea. Examining the coral back on land, English ...

Nearly three centuries later, researchers continue to make new discoveries about the remote Aleutian archipelago that stretches more than 1,000 miles from the Alaska mainland. Regular surveys of ...

Until about 20 years ago, little was known about the abundance of colorful cold ... for coral gardens or sponge habitat in the Gulf of Alaska, Oceana argues. That leaves the swath of Gulf water ...

With a length of around 400 kilometers, the world’s largest contiguous cold-water coral structure stretches ... Quaternary Science Reviews. The stony cor­als Loph­elia pertusa and Mad­re­pora ocu­lata ...