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 ...

Scientists initially thought that the 6.4 million acre seascape off the southeastern United States was a dead zone. By Laura Baisas Published Jan 18, 2024 12:45 PM EST Add Popular Science (opens in a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this image provided by NOAA Ocean Exploration, an alfonsino fish swims above a thicket of Lophelia pertusa coral during a dive ...

Scientists have discovered what may be one of the world’s largest cold-water coral reef systems, located about 1,000 meters (3,300 feet) deep in Argentina’s territorial waters, with much of it ...

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. She sticks ...