Marine biologists found the new bacteria in the tissue of two soft coral species that live in complete darkness in the Gulf ...

Exclusive photos reveal a sprawling, 300-year-old coral near Solomon Islands, recently discovered by the National Geographic ...

The world's biggest coral — an organism made up of about a billion polyps — is about three times bigger than the previous record-holder and was discovered by chance during an expedition off the ...

A research team has discovered two remarkable species of bacteria in the tissue of two deep-sea corals from the Gulf of Mexico. These previously unknown symbionts of the corals have an extremely small ...

Scientists uncover unique bacteria within Gulf of Mexico's coral reefs, revealing insights into coral survival in the ocean’s ...

SCTLD is a highly lethal disease in corals that was first spotted in 2014. According to NOAA, it affects over 20 coral ...

It took nearly 25 years for biologists to discover that a swimming and glowing organism in the ocean’s midnight zone was ...

Most sea slugs use their raspy tongues to feed on prey that is attached to the seafloor. Instead, Bathydevius caudactylus ...

They are most commonly found in tide pools, kelp forest, or coral reefs and a small number of them slither on the abyssal ...

This is Bathydevius caudactylus, the first known nudibranch of its kind: living not in shallow waters, or on the seafloor, ...