"Many [deep-sea corals] live for hundreds of years, with some colonies living over 4,000 years," NOAA says, with latest discovery revealing nearly 84,000 individual coral mound peak features.

But first, scientists recently discovered the largest known deep sea coral reef in the world. It’s called Million Mounds, and it stretches all the way from Miami to Charleston, South Carolina. It’s ...

Largest deep-sea coral reef: How it was discovered. The reef is too deep to explore by scuba diving, and that's why the mapping was done using 31 multi-beam sonars, according to the news release.

An alfonsino fish swims above Lophelia pertusa coral off the southeastern coast of the U.S., in June 2019. Scientists have mapped the largest coral reef deep in the ocean, off the U.S. Atlantic Coast.

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Temple University biology professor Erik Cordes about the discovery of the world's largest known deep-sea coral habitat.

Scientists have found the world’s largest deep-sea coral reef off the eastern coast of the United States. The massive 6.4 acre area stretches from Miami, Florida up to Charleston, South Carolina.

The largest deep-sea coral reef to date was mapped off the U.S. Atlantic coast. It not only provides benefits to sea life, but humans and planet Earth, as well.

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