"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 ...

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.

PIX Now - 6 a.m. 8/24/23 10:52. MONTEREY – The world's largest octopus garden, in the shade of an extinct underwater volcano off the Monterey Coast, is where thousands of cephalopods gather to ...

Researchers used advanced technology to study a massive aggregation of deep-sea octopus gathered at thermal springs near an extinct underwater volcano off the coast of Central California. Warm ...

Choy cautioned that deep sea work is needed globally to determine how extensively microplastics saturate deep waters. “It’s an open question. This is one study and a lot of work.