On the colorful coral reefs in the South China Sea, countless fish ... “alluding to the intermingled black and white patterns on the carapace,” researchers said, and the suffix “-thus ...

A recent study suggests that deep-sea corals from ... Institute. Soft coral may look like waving reeds, skeleton fingers or stalks of bamboo — and glow pink, orange, white, blue and purple ...

Because so few specimens of deep-sea black corals have been collected, and so many undiscovered species are likely still out there, there is also a lot to learn about the evolutionary tree of corals.