A unique fjord in Chilean Patagonia gives scientists a chance to unlock the reproductive secrets of cold-water corals that ...

This broad-ranging treatment is the first to synthesise current understanding of all types of cold-water coral, covering their ecology, biology, palaeontology and geology. Beginning with a history of ...

Scientists mapped the largest deep-sea coral reef, which stretches over ... The mound region is made up of cold-water coral mounds, which are corals "shaped like bumps or pinnacles on the seafloor ...

Unlike the more commonly known shallow-water coral, deep-sea coral is a big mystery in the oceanic world. "The really impressive part of this is it really hasn't been done before for these species ...

From animal journeys across oceans to the discovery of dozens of new species in the deep sea, these stories wowed us ...

In their paper published in the journal ZooKeys, the group describes how they found multiple examples of the fish while on an expedition that involved exploring deep-sea coral reefs off the coast ...

Biologists use the term ‘true sea snake’ for any of the 64 recognised species of snakes of the family Elapidae that spend the majority of their lives in the ocean. They even give birth to young in the ...

Coastal species like frogfish, which live in diverse and productive coral reef environments ... Instead, we're seeing it in these deep-sea fish who have nothing but water to interact with." ...