Why do people care about coral reefs? Why does their damage cause such concern and outrage? What drives people to go to great ...

But first, scientists recently discovered the largest known deep sea coral reef in the world. It’s called Million Mounds, and it stretches all the way from Miami to Charleston, South Carolina. It’s ...

The first deep-sea coral reefs in the Galápagos were discovered in April, revealing the ancient structures not previously known to have existed in the region.

Scientists have mapped the largest coral reef deep in the ocean, stretching hundreds of miles off the U.S. Atlantic coast. While researchers have known since the 1960s that some coral were present ...

Four decades ago, warm waters from an El Niño event killed off nearly all the corals surrounding the Galápagos. Most coral reefs never recovered (SN: 1/9/15). But in recent months, researchers ...

The largest deep-sea coral reef to date was mapped off the U.S. Atlantic coast. It not only provides benefits to sea life, but humans and planet Earth, as well.

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.

Largest deep-sea coral reef: How it was discovered. The reef is too deep to explore by scuba diving, and that's why the mapping was done using 31 multi-beam sonars, according to the news release.

Deep sea coral habitat likely to get protection by closure of fisheries off NorCal coast A man and child explore the rocky Monterey Bay shoreline on a summer day at Lovers Point State Marine ...

WASHINGTON — Scientists have mapped the largest coral reef deep in the ocean, stretching hundreds of miles off the U.S. Atlantic coast. While researchers have known since the 1960s that some ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have mapped the largest coral reef deep in the ocean, stretching hundreds of miles off the U.S. Atlantic coast. While researchers have known since the 1960s that ...