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— A nascent effort to rebuild deep-sea corals damaged by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is showing signs of early success, according to researchers handling the operation. The National Oceanic and ...

Scientists on board a deep-sea expedition to the South Sandwich Islands near Antarctica have returned with a treasure trove of photos of previously unseen marine life. They found coral gardens ...

They live in the ocean’s coldest, darkest depths, far from sight — but cold-water corals are far from safe. In a first-of-its ...

Along with studies on how fast the corals grow, what they eat, who eats them, and their reproductive cycles, globally important methods for deep-sea coral restoration have been pioneered at Sur Ridge.

“Deep-sea coral gardens that took thousands of years to grow could be gone with one swipe of a fishing net,” Gann-Perkal tells ISRAEL21c. “If the Palmahim Slide is declared protected, these beautiful ...

Having an extra day for exploration at sea is a rare event; however, the weather was perfect, the equipment worked flawlessly, and a team from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) a… ...

Deep below the surface of the ocean, bacteria and critters that feed off nutrients spouting from hydrothermal vents met with ...

The team thinks the octopus garden is just one of many deep sea octopus environments out there. Just five miles away from the garden, researchers found another octopus nursery near thermal springs.

The beautiful colors that highlight our shallow water coral reefs in Kaua‘i are produced, in part by photosynthesis within the algae that grows in the coral structure. The corals and marine life ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — A nascent effort to rebuild deep-sea corals damaged by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is showing signs of early success, according to researchers handling the operation. The National ...