"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.

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

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

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"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.

Known to only live in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, the Solumbellula appeared in the Pacific for the first time to ...

Researchers have begun exploring the hidden deep-sea coral reefs off the coast of Florida, uncovering vibrant ecosystems beneath the waves. Footage shows the mesophotic coral ecosystems located on the ...

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 ...

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).

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 ...

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 ...

Layers of coral skeleton laid down over the past 1,000 years can be seen in this polished section of a deep sea coral. (Photo by M. McCarthy) Long-lived deep-sea corals preserve evidence of a major ...