The mound region is made up of cold-water coral mounds, which are corals "shaped like bumps or pinnacles on the seafloor and can range in height from about ten feet to hundreds of feet tall, but ...

Video footage from the deep underwater expeditions to the coral shows a world teeming with life. Schools of fish, small and large, dart among rocks, corals, sponges and sand.

It's hard to imagine a coral reef this size going largely undetected until now, but it's a sign of just how much of the ocean remains unmapped. World's largest deep-sea coral reef mapped 100 miles ...

Unlike shallower, warm-water reefs that thrive on sunlight, deep-water reefs are chilly, dark and deep. Temperatures in these reefs range from a brisk 39 to 54 degrees Fahrenheit, and they can be ...

The Blake Plateau cold-water coral province is a vast deep-sea reef habitat about 100 miles southeast of Charleston. At an expansive 6.4 million acres, with a coral-dense center of about 1.5 ...

Scientists have found the world’s largest-known deep sea coral habitat off the Southeast coast and a portion lies just 90 miles offshore from Georgia.

Partnering with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Department of the Interior to develop and test methods to restore middle and deep water benthic coral habitats damaged ...

Since 1984, five specimens of the new species have been found in the waters of Vanuatu and New Caledonia, according to a study.

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 ...

Florida's Coral Reef, the only coral reef system in the continental United States and the third-largest barrier reef ecosystem in the world, is a shallow-water reef. This deep-sea one is ...