This is a new species of white coral, found in an area known as The Football. Most likely it is closely related to gorgonian corals. (Credit: NOAA)
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 7, 2014. A NOAA-led research team has discovered a new species of deep-sea coral and a nursery area for catsharks and skates in the underwater canyons located close to the Gulf of Farallones and Cordell Bank national marine sanctuaries off the Sonoma coast.
In the first…
