This latest type of black coral is unique in that it thrives in warm waters such as the Red Sea, which has a temperature of 22 °C. Scientists were aiming to explore deep-sea ecosystems of the ...

Using a remote-controlled submarine, my colleagues and I discovered five new species of black corals living as deep as 2,500 feet (760 meters) below the surface in the Great Barrier Reef and Coral ...

This fluorescing deep-water coral emits a warm, orange glow into the cool, ... AI Videos of Black Women Depicted as ‘Bigfoot’ Are Going Viral.

A spectacular new species of coral has been discovered thriving in veritable forests on the peaks of undersea mountains off the coast of the Pacific Northwest. The large candelabra or fanlike ...

The narrow stretch of water known as the Strait of Messina, where the mythical sea monsters Scylla and Charybdis swallowed sailors and ships, hides the world's largest forest of black coral ...

Imagine descending in a submarine to the ice-cold, ink-black depths of the ocean, 800 meters under the surface of the Atlantic. Here the tops of the hills are covered in large coral reefs.

Black coral has also been used by Hawaiians as a traditional medicine. The skeletal-accreting organism thrives in deep, dark water, feeding on zooplankton and producing an ebony luster.

Pax, Latin for 'peace' made its way into the scientific name of a new coral discovered off Pacific Panama and described in the journal Bulletin of Marine Science. According to researchers at the ...

Coral reefs are economic mainstays and critical habitats. But something else makes them amazing: their otherworldly glow. Both shallow- and deep-water corals emit fluorescent light, but until now ...

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 ...

Amid the incredible areas is a 160-mile-long dense coral reef known as the Million Mounds that stretches from Florida to Georgia and is the world’s largest known continuous deep-sea coral reef.

This is the location of the world's largest deep-water coral reef complex, the "Mauritanian Wall," which extends for at least 580 kilometers, with a height between 80 and 100 meters.