By Liz Kimbrough In the twilight depths of the Gulf of Mexico, about as deep down as a football field is long, U.S. Navy ...

researchers have found a glimmer of hope off the coast of the U.S. – the largest-ever deep-sea coral reef. It's been known since the 1960s that there were massive mounds of cold-water coral off ...

is mainly made up of stony coral. The species, Desmophyllum pertusum, is mainly found in the ocean at 656 to 3,280 feet deep. At those depths, water is 39 F on average. Sowers said the cold-water ...

ERIK CORDES: Yeah. That’s true. And based on some of this recent work, we’re now learning that the coral reefs that exist in the deep ocean are actually more widespread and more common than shallow ...

The issue has received scant attention until recently. In part, that's because the deep-water coral gardens are well-hidden from public view, too remote for scuba divers to reach, occupying niches ...

Mote is also partnering with NOAA and the Department of the Interior to restore deep-water coral habitats damaged by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The gene bank is playing a crucial role in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hot sea vents and deep-water coral reefs are under-explored and far more accessible, explorers say. The Titanic may be one of the most popular and identifiable wreckage sites in the history of sea ...