A recent study suggests that deep-sea corals from 540 million years ago might have been the first animals to glow. Marine creatures use light for various purposes, such as startling predators ...

A gold coral (Gerardia sp.) from 400 m in Hawaii est. 2700 years old. It hasn’t been too long since Brendan Roark first reported that deep-sea corals off Hawaii are clocking in as the world’s oldest ...

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 ...

Deep-sea corals are the oldest living animals with a skeleton in the seas, claims new research that found a 4,265-year-old coral species off the coast of Hawaii.

While deep-sea creatures have adapted many different ways to live in the deep ocean—such as light organs, ... It is camouflaged to look just like a rock on a coral reef, ...

Lots of bizarre deep sea creatures were spotted in 2022. Here are some of our favorites. ... Suggestions included soft corals and sea sponges, but there was no unanimous answer.

Animals that live in deeper waters and don’t move a whole lot are likely to have longer lives. Life deep in the sea can be long—hundreds of years long. Photograph by Reinhard Dirscherl, Alamy ...

But until now, it was unknown whether healthy, deep-sea corals produce a particular type of ROS, called superoxide (O2•-). Superoxide is a highly reactive ROS known for influencing ocean ecology ...

Scientists on a mission to explore Costa Rican waters made incredible scientific discoveries along the way: identifying four new species of deep-sea corals and at least eight other sea creatures.

Vast colonies of living coral are being found in the deep ocean off the West Coast, fragile and slow-growing habitat for sea creatures and an important hunting ground for commercial fishing. Now ...

In the study, authors took direct measurements of superoxide in water closely surrounding corals, by bringing a one-of-a-kind deep-sea chemiluminescent sensor called SOLARIS, into the ocean over ...