A recent study suggests that deep-sea corals from 540 million years ago might have been the first animals to glow. Marine creatures use light for various purposes, such as startling predators, luring ...

On occasion, it is of vital importance to consider how little we know about the spinning rock we all live on. Take coral reefs, for example. Given how much they've been studied, you'd think we've ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Many animals can glow in the dark. Fireflies famously blink on summer evenings. But most animals that light up are found in the depths of the ocean. In a new study, scientists report ...

A dome-fronted submersible sinks beneath the waves off Indonesia, heading down nearly 1,000 meters in search of new species, ...

The deep-sea coral Callogorgia delta is often found in the Gulf of Mexico near cold seeps. The pink-coloured brittle stars are probably useful for the corals. The photo was taken at a depth of 439 ...

Deep-sea corals are incredibly useful for conducting scientific investigations and raising public awareness. Geologists, biologists, ecologists, chemists, geneticists, historians and marine managers ...

Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and specializes in reporting on health, medicine, and genetics. Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and ...

Fishermen call it the "Hell Hole," this place of whistling winds and smashing waves in the north Atlantic Ocean. Above a chasm in the Northeast Channel, which runs between the submerged Georges and ...

Soft coral diversity drops off below the arid horn of Africa, and though the Red Sea is wrapped in a garland of reefs, it has significantly fewer soft coral species. This means the reefs of Madagascar ...