One of the deep-sea anemones observed during the expedition. Image courtesy of Illuminating Biodiversity in Deep Waters of Puerto Rico 2022 They also found a multitude of species new to science.

"Many [deep-sea corals] live for hundreds of years, with some colonies living over 4,000 years," NOAA says, with latest discovery revealing nearly 84,000 individual coral mound peak features.

Black, Deep-Sea Coral That Can Live in Warm Waters Discovered. Published Nov 01, 2022 at 11:39 AM EDT Updated Nov 02, 2022 at 11:34 AM EDT. By .

Soft coral species in the deep sea exhibit bioluminescence, which researchers studied using remote-controlled underwater rovers. Many animals can glow in the dark.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...