A new study conducted by researchers from McGill University and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama ...

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Scientists have mapped a hidden hotspot of soft coral diversity off East Africa, revealing surprising reef dynamics.

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A groundbreaking deep-sea expedition has uncovered unseen species thriving in the remote South Sandwich Islands.

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The Blake Plateau cold-water coral province is a vast deep-sea reef habitat about 100 miles southeast of Charleston. At an expansive 6.4 million acres, with a coral-dense center of about 1.5 ...

The new maps revealed thousands of previously unknown "mounds" of deep-sea corals, also known as cold-water corals, spread almost continuously across an area covering 6.4 million acres (2.6 ...

The mound region is made up of cold-water coral mounds, which are corals "shaped like bumps or pinnacles on the seafloor and can range in height from about ten feet to hundreds of feet tall, but ...