Scientists have recently announced a new black coral species ... "The rising of the water temperature is a clear and obvious threat to most of the marine life, particularly the deep-sea one ...

researchers have found a glimmer of hope off the coast of the U.S. – the largest-ever deep-sea coral reef. It's been known since the 1960s that there were massive mounds of cold-water coral off ...

Credit: NOAA Unlike the colorful reefs found in sunlit tropical waters, this one is mostly made up of a stony coral that’s usually found from about 650 to 3,300 feet underwater—depths where it’s very ...

While exploring a canyon nearly 1,200 feet below the surface, the ROV came across a scraggly patch of black coral reminiscent of a deep-sea tumbleweed. As the ROV snipped off one of the coral’s ...

Our two expeditions were the first to send a robot down to these particular deep-water ecosystems ... my colleagues and I collected 60 black coral specimens. We would carefully remove the corals ...

Deep-sea coral habitats ... endangered black-capped petrels, feed off the productive waters of the Blake Plateau during their long-distance oceanic migrations. Shallow-water coral reefs around ...

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 ...

This string of villages are marvelously overlooked despite their amazing dive sites, black sand beaches, and rich, local ...

is mainly made up of stony coral. The species, Desmophyllum pertusum, is mainly found in the ocean at 656 to 3,280 feet deep. At those depths, water is 39 F on average. Sowers said the cold-water ...

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 ...