Coral Reefs Found Growing In Cold, Deep Ocean
Tuesday, November 4, 2008 - 09:14
in Earth & Climate
Imagine descending in a submarine to the ice-cold, ink-black depths of the ocean, 800 meters under the surface of the Atlantic. Here the tops of the hills are covered in large coral reefs. Researchers have been studying the formation of these unknown cold-water relatives of the better-known tropical corals.