It’s an organic gem like a pearl. But instead of residing in a shell, this Hawaii gem grows slowly like a miniature tree deep ...

Deep in the forest, we begin the journey to find natural groundwater using only bamboo and traditional techniques. This first part shows how we scout, dig, and build a primitive well—an ...

The largest area found has been nicknamed "Million Mounds" by scientists, NOAA said, and is mostly made up of stony, cold-water coral known as Desmophyllum pertusum – previously called Lophelia ...

An international group of researchers has discovered two “pristine” coral reefs in the waters off the Galápagos Islands in the Eastern Pacific, the Schmidt Ocean Institute announced last week ...

Vast colonies of living coral are being found in the deep ocean off the West Coast,... Deep-sea coral reefs at risk from trawlers Seattle Post-Intelligencer Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo ...

New species of shark, sea butterfly, mud dragon, bamboo coral, water bear, octocoral, and shrimp were just some of the ...

WILD NATURE Deep-sea discovery: Ancient coral may have been the first glow-in-the-dark creatures, study finds Marine creatures use light for various purposes, such as startling predators, luring ...

Deep-sea corals are found in every ocean and, unlike their shallow-water counterparts, do not need sunlight and feed exclusively by plucking food particles straight out of the 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 ...

They are often the only three-dimensional structures in deep water, providing organisms with shelter and a place to feed. “In shallow water, that role is shared with stony corals,” Lasker says, “but ...