Corals searching for food in the cold and dark waters of the deep sea are building higher and higher mountains to get closer to the source of their food. But in doing so, they may find themselves ...

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 ...

Cold-water coral traps itself on mountains in the deep sea. ScienceDaily . Retrieved May 3, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 02 / 240214122625.htm ...

Derek C. Sowers, et al., "Mapping and Geomorphic Characterization of the Vast Cold-Water Coral Mounds of the Blake Plateau" Last year proved to be difficult for shallower reefs off Florida's coast.

Sowers said the cold-water corals in deep-sea reefs are biologically different from shallow-water reefs like the Great Barrier Reef, which stretches along the northeast coast of Australia.

Article Title. Severe cold-water bleaching of a deep-water reef underscores future challenges for Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems, Alan D. Foreman, Nicolas N. Duprey ...

The new maps revealed thousands of previously unknown "mounds" of deep-sea corals, also known as cold-water corals, spread almost continuously across an area covering 6.4 million acres (2.6 ...

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (MPIC) recently published a paper detailing their observations of a major coral bleaching and mortality event that occurred on the deep ...

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 ...

image: Video still of a cold-water coral reefs taken by Dick van Oevelen ©2017 . view more . Credit: Dick van Oevelen. Corals searching for food in the cold and dark waters of the deep sea are ...