Scientists examining underwater cliff ecosystems onboard research vessel Falkor (too) using the 4,500 meter robot, ROV SuBastian, have discovered two pristine coral reefs in the waters surrounding the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A sonar image of seamounts at the bottom of the ocean. The deep sea is an enigmatic, alien world. But every year, scientists make ...

Glowing red lobsters, octopus gardens, towering tree-like corals and glass sponges that are thousands of years old make up just a few of the life forms at this new seamount. When scientists say that ...

Corals searching for food in the cold and dark waters of the deep sea are building higher and higher mountains to get closer to the source of their food. But in doing so, they may find themselves ...

The deep sea still holds many mysteries for humans, and that may be a good thing — at least for the growth and preservation of at-risk marine life. Scientists have discovered two new deep-sea coral ...

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Coral reefs are increasingly threatened by marine heatwaves, which drive widespread coral bleaching and mortality. Mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs) have been proposed as potential thermal refuges ...

Mass coral bleaching occurs when unusually warm ocean temperatures disrupt the partnership between corals and the microscopic algae that supply most of their energy, leaving corals weakened and often ...

Some 1,400 kilometers off the coast of Chile, rare deep-sea creatures drift along a garden of sponges and corals that grow along the flanks of a 3,100-meter-tall undersea mountain. A monthlong survey ...

A recent report on global tipping points warned that coral reefs face widespread dieback and have reached a point from which they cannot recover. But in our new research, we show this might not be the ...