The seamount is most likely a remnant of an extinct volcano, as most seamounts are, according to NOAA Ocean Exploration, a federal program that is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

By Claire Turrell Samoa, an archipelagic country composed of nine islands in the South Pacific Ocean, is on the frontline of ...

Part of the China-led Digital Deep-sea Typical Habitats Program, or Digital DEPTH, the vessel is headed for the Magellan Seamounts in the western Pacific, which is considered a typical fragile ...

Oceanography, Vol. 23, No. 1, Special Issue on Mountains in the Sea (MARCH 2010), pp. 42-57 (16 pages) ABSTRACT Seamounts are windows into the deep Earth that are helping to elucidate various deep ...

A team of oceanographers from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Chungnam National University, and the University of Hawaii have used radar satellite data to map 19,000 previously unknown ...

Subscribe now!) In an astonishing discovery, scientists have reported finding 19,325 new seamounts after poring through new high-resolution data. A 2011 census had already mapped 24,000 seamounts ...

Researchers found and mapped four seamounts in the deep sea off the coast of Peru and Chile. The tallest of these new peaks rises around 1.5 miles above the seafloor. When you purchase through ...

Malpelo Foundation researchers hope their new expeditions to the area’s seamounts, which form a vital corridor for migratory species, will inform the ongoing fight against illegal fishing that ...

Twenty of the encountered animal species may be new to science and found only on the summits of their home seamounts, adding to 150 possible new species from two previous expeditions. The animals ...

Researchers found and mapped four seamounts in the deep sea off the coast of Peru and Chile. The tallest of these new peaks rises around 1.5 miles above the seafloor. Researchers have discovered ...