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 ...

New species of shark, sea butterfly, mud dragon, bamboo coral, water bear, octocoral, and shrimp were just some of the ... submersibles and deep-sea robots up to 5000 meters below sea level to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...