A Boston University led team of scientists analyzed a Pacific Ocean seamount that is teeming with biologically diverse corals and sea creatures ...

At IOCAS’s Laboratory of Marine Organism Taxonomy & Phylogeny (MOTP) Studies, a pioneer in surveys on marine biodiversity, researchers have explored nine seamounts in the tropical Western ...

Rising mountain peaks and sharp rock formations cover the ocean floor, with corals, sponges, fish, and tons of sea creatures clinging to their sides. Unlike mountains on land that dare climbers and ...

This work was inspired by trying to get a better understanding of the bigger picture of what shapes biodiversity and community composition on seamounts. We wanted to take a deeper dive on a ...

The highest peak here is more than 7,500 feet tall. Seamounts generally form when volcanic mountains rise up from the seafloor but fail to reach the surface (those that break the surface become ...

Scientists are predicting that a colossal underwater volcano, the Axial Seamount, could be on the verge of eruption. Located around 300 miles off the Oregon coast in the US, this mammoth natural ...

A research expedition exploring seamounts near Valparaíso ... instruments to make a wide variety of observations about biodiversity in the deep sea environment that could inform efforts to ...

And, that's all biodiversity that we had no clue existed ... communities of animals change with depth and among the different seamounts. And, we were looking to see if there were any, if each ...

The seamount rises 3,109 meters from the ocean floor, nearly four times the height of the Burj Khalifa and taller than Mount Olympus in Greece. The discovery was made during a 28-day expedition ...