The first new species, Peltospira gargantua, was found on a black smoker chimney in the Hydra field at a depth of about 12,300 feet, researchers said.

The third U.N. Ocean Conference has opened as pressure mounts for nations to turn decades of promises into real protection ...

Saving the oceans from coral bleaching, plastic pollution, ghost gear, sonar disrupting whale navigation, coral trampled by ...

The project combines lab-based techniques like coral fragmentation and transplantation that will be field tested in middle and deep sea habitats ... reef southeast of Bamboo Key near Marathon ...

The Lord Howe Rise is a largely unexplored deep-sea plateau home to hundreds of ... the Tasman Viking failed to report it caught bamboo coral while fishing in the same area. A sentencing judge ...

GALVESTON, Texas -- In the early morning, at a lab not too far from the Galveston coast, Shannon Ainsworth is collecting hundreds of tiny, floating brown eggs from a tank of deep-sea coral.

Numerous corals, deep-sea sponges, fish ... and marine policy organization Oceana. A large bamboo coral holding benthic ctenophores, barnacles, a sea star, and ophiuroids was documented on ...

The bamboo coral Isidella displaying bioluminescence in the Caribbean ... CC BY-ND Octocorals can create coral gardens and animal forests in the oceans, particularly in the deep sea. These communities ...

We were taking a tissue sample of a bamboo coral collected from the deep seafloor by a remotely ... through geologic time for many types of animals, particularly in the deep sea. This research has ...

We were taking a tissue sample of a bamboo coral collected from the deep seafloor ... particularly in the deep sea. This research has sparked new ideas for us about early animal evolution and ...

Four different species of corals, including bubblegum and bamboo corals ... on the conditions of deep-sea communities, subsequent projects can use the evidence to develop coral-cultivation ...

Deep-sea corals are found in every ocean and ... (L-R, Top to Bottom) Close up of a bamboo coral (~1430 m), a bubblegum coral (~835 m), a black coral (~839 m), a golden coral (~836 m), a mushroom ...