Van der Kaaden explains, "A cold-blooded animal like a coral uses up too much energy in warmer water. But a coral is an animal that is attached to the bottom, so it can't just move down the mountain.

Through years of meticulous sonar mapping, a thriving deep-sea coral community the size of Vermont has been confirmed off the southeast U.S. coastline. 🪸 By Dan Smith Published : Feb. 14, 2024 ...

A new study of deep-sea coral reefs indicates that humans may be having a much more significant impact on them than previously thought. According to a report from the Irish Examiner, researchers ...

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 ...

Van der Kaaden: "A cold-blooded animal like a coral uses up too much energy in warmer water. But a coral is an animal that is attached to the bottom, so it can't just move down the mountain.

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 ...

Deep-sea trawlers dragging their nets over the ocean bed are wrecking a precious find of cold-water coral in the North Atlantic. British marine biologists say that damage is being wreaked at ...

The cold-water species is mainly found in the ocean at 656 to 3,280 feet deep and survives by filter-feeding biological particles. How is this coral reef different from Florida's Coral Reef?

The report, Cold-water Coral Reefs: Out Of Sight - No Longer Out Of Mind, is the work of the programme's World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Unep-WCMC. Slow and deep. The international scientific ...

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 ...

Coral reefs in the deep and cold regions of the world's oceans are of enormous importance as "nurseries," reproduction centers, and hunting grounds for predatory species.