There are some seriously strange lifeforms lurking in the depths of our oceans – ghost sharks and upside-down isopods, anyone ...

A German-American research team has discovered two remarkable species of bacteria in the tissue of two deep-sea corals from ...

In a stunning discovery, the world’s largest coral has been found thriving in the Solomon Islands in the southwest Pacific ...

Microbes unable to break down carbohydrates belong to a newly identified family of marine bacteria. A German-American ...

It usually appears as a lesion on the coral that goes on to destroy the soft tissue. SCTLD is particularly severe ...

But historians aren't sure how deep their knowledge went of ... Slender cardinalfish gleam against a gor- gonian, or sea fan, on a northerly reef. The soft coral’s vivid color likely suggests ...

The reef is a teeming city of hard corals, soft corals, fire corals, lace corals, brain corals, staghorn corals, sea whips ... In scuba gear, 50 feet deep, Heyman and I swam toward a huge ball ...

However, nothing prepares you for the overwhelming experience of swimming between the soft coral gardens, towering barrel sponges, and gracefully swaying sea fans while many thousands of fish swim ...

Intensive seabed trawling may accelerate carbon emissions, as new research reveals its disruptive impact on ocean sediments.

Discovered in the Three Sisters island group by members of the National Geographic Pristine Seas team during their scientific ...

The research team studied several colonies of two soft coral species ... many of which live in the dark and nutrient-poor deep sea, are thought to rely on bacteria to convert nutrients or obtain ...

The research team studied several colonies of two soft coral species ... Vohsen et al, Discovery of deep-sea coral symbionts from a novel clade of marine bacteria with severely reduced genomes ...