Changing the way we manage Aotearoa New Zealand's oceans could save our biodiverse-rich, critically-endangered deep-water coral. Aotearoa New Zealand is a biodiversity hotspot for deepwater coral ...

Near the eastern coast of Luzon, Philippines, located 50 meters below the sea surface, is the Benham Bank, an underwater ...

Deep-sea corals are found in every ... so they can get better access to food in the water. (L-R, Top to Bottom) Close up of a bamboo coral (~1430 m), a bubblegum coral (~835 m), a black coral ...

Mote is also partnering with NOAA and the Department of the Interior to restore deep-water coral habitats damaged ... a shallow reef southeast of Bamboo Key near Marathon, and Ham Reef off of ...

The issue has received scant attention until recently. In part, that's because the deep-water coral gardens are well-hidden from public view, too remote for scuba divers to reach, occupying niches ...

A recent study suggests that deep-sea corals from ... Aquarium Research Institute. Soft coral may look like waving reeds, skeleton fingers or stalks of bamboo — and glow pink, orange, white ...

An international group of researchers has discovered two “pristine” coral reefs in the ... Unlike shallower, warm-water reefs that thrive on sunlight, deep-water reefs are chilly, dark and ...

But this coral that forms most of this habitat is white, and it's naturally white because they don't have the photosynthetic algae in them that the shallow water corals do. We're much too deep for ...