"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.

When BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico in 2011, it led to the largest oil spill in U.S. history, ...

A group of scientists wrapped up a deep-sea expedition in the western Aleutians this summer. They explored parts of the ocean ...

In a new study, scientists report that deep-sea corals that lived 540 million years ago may have been the first animals to glow, far earlier than previously thought. "Light signaling is one of the ...

A towering coral reef has emerged from the depths of Australia’s northern waters, reshaping what scientists thought they knew ...

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Temple University biology professor Erik Cordes about the discovery of the world's largest known deep-sea coral habitat. Now we want to take you to the bottom of the ...

More information: Samuel A. Vohsen et al, Discovery of deep-sea coral symbionts from a novel clade of marine bacteria with severely reduced genomes, Nature Communications (2024).

The deep-sea corals cover an area that is roughly 310 miles long and 68 miles wide stretching from near Charleston, South Carolina, all the way down to Miami.

Much of it was thought to be soft sediment with patchy coral communities. “This area was known since the 1960s to have important deep-sea coral communities growing there,” Dr. Sowers offers.

Though hostile in appearance, the deep sea teems with life. Far from being barren, the abyss is likely home to millions of ...

Here's a short list of 21 things you can do with a deep sea coral. 1. Raise awareness of deep-sea habitats 2. Display in a museum (e.g. Smithsonian NMNH) 3. Make a GIS database (Etnoyer and Morgan ...

Deep coral reefs provide habitat for sharks, swordfish, sea stars, octopus, shrimp and many other kinds of fish, the scientists said. Tropical reefs are better known to scientists — and ...