"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.

Researchers discovered the coral gardens using a remotely operated vehicle known as SuBastian. ... Deep-Sea Coral Gardens Discovered by Researchers in Mysterious Underwater Canyons.

New study first to reveal growth rates of deep-sea coral communities Date: November 11, 2019 Source: University of Hawaii at Manoa Summary: Researchers revealed for the first time growth rates of ...

Taken by the deep-sea ROV Global Explorer, this image offered the scientists the first glimpse of the black coral species in its natural habitat. Image courtesy of Illuminating Biodiversity in ...

On the upper-continental slope, about 80 miles off the coast of Delacroix in the Gulf of Mexico, is a coral reef unlike those found in shallow, tropical waters. More than 1,200 feet deep, this ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Deep coral reefs have not previously been able to undergo extensive studying because of the available diving tools. But divers now have the necessary tools to dive longer at greater depth, and are ...

The largest deep-sea coral reef to date was mapped off the U.S. Atlantic coast. It not only provides benefits to sea life, but humans and planet Earth, as well.

Normally, deep-sea reefs have a relatively low proportion of coral coverage, about 10-20%, per the news release. But this system stands out for its particular vigor: an estimated 50-60% live coral ...