'Right on the doorstep' of the US coast, these ghostly hidden corals are expected to harbor a host of deep sea creatures not yet known to science, the researchers said.
But - while marine biologists have been aware, since at least the 1960s, that the inky black depths of the Blake Plateau could be home to deep-sea coral - it was only in recently that Sowers and his team had the funding and the hardware to properly survey these ocean depths.
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