On occasion, it is of vital importance to consider how little we know about the spinning rock we all live on. Take coral ...

Scuba diving level: Ras Mohammed is renowned for its vibrant coral reefs and diverse marine life, making it suitable for ...

Scientists are conducting a pioneering large-scale deep-sea coral restoration in the Gulf of Mexico following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, which damaged 1,994 square kilometers (770 ...

“Deep coral reefs occur throughout the world and generally reach depths of up to 150 metres. They host different ecological communities from the shallow coral reefs that most people think of ...

The deep-sea coral Callogorgia delta is home to two newly discovered species of unusual bacteria. Image credit: ECOGIG consortium ( CC0 1.0 ) DOWNLOAD PDF VERSION ...

For deep-sea coral, oil contamination can have a variety of impacts, including poisoning the species or completely covering it, causing it to starve or suffocate, ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

We are learning more about the deep-sea corals that live in waters about 100 miles off the South Carolina coast, as scientists continue mapping them and enlarging our understanding of ...

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 ...

A new deep-sea mapping project has revealed near-continuous reefs of cold-water corals spanning an area the size of Vermont just off the southeast U.S. coastline.