On occasion, it is of vital importance to consider how little we know about the spinning rock we all live on. Take coral ...

Animals must begin migration before conditions have deteriorated where they are, or they will miss the optimal conditions at ...

Scientists are conducting a pioneering large-scale deep-sea coral restoration in the Gulf of Mexico following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, which damaged 1,994 square kilometers (770 ...

Moving south, Duygu caught her first sight of corals in the Red Sea. What she saw in those shallow waters took her breath away. Such a vibrant overflow of life felt illusory. HD television ...

More than 200 species of deep-sea corals have been described on the Blake Plateau, including hard corals, sea fans, lace corals and black corals.

Deep sea coral habitat likely to get protection by closure of fisheries off NorCal coast A man and child explore the rocky Monterey Bay shoreline on a summer day at Lovers Point State Marine ...

But first, scientists recently discovered the largest known deep sea coral reef in the world. It’s called Million Mounds, and it stretches all the way from Miami to Charleston, South Carolina. It’s ...

"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.

The largest deep-sea coral reef to date was mapped off the U.S. Atlantic coast. It not only provides benefits to sea life, but humans and planet Earth, as well.

Deep coral reefs provide habitat for sharks, swordfish, sea stars, octopus, shrimp and many other kinds of fish, the scientists said. Tropical reefs are better known to scientists - and snorkelers ...

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.