"The tallest is over one-and-a-half miles in height, and we didn’t really know it was there," Schmidt Ocean Institute's Jyotika Virmani — whose team has been studying "seamounts" from on board ...
The deep sea, a realm of darkness, mystery, and immense pressure, covers over 65% of Earth’s surface and remains one of the ...
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 ...
The Emperor Seamount Chain is a massive and richly biodiverse set of underwater mountains stretching about 3,000 kilometers ...
A galaxy siphonophore north of Motu Motiro Hiva island As these seamounts sit in an area of ocean where the water is so clear that the sun’s beams penetrate further into the water than anywhere ...
co-led by researcher Ariadna Mechó of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center—Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS), observed 160 species on seamounts off the coast of Chile that had not ...
It examined many of the 110 seamounts that make up the Salas y Gómez Ridge, mapping over 30,000 square miles of seafloor, including six seamounts that had not yet been documented. "The ...
A research expedition exploring seamounts near Valparaíso, Chile may have found over 100 new species thriving across the Salas y Gómez and Nazca Ridges. The Salas y Gómez and Nazca Ridges are ...
NEARLY two-thirds of the ocean lies outside any country's control or national jurisdiction. These are the high seas or waters ...
The researchers observed the gatherings as they explored two seamounts on the Cordillera de Coiba, not far from Colombian waters, during 11 dives in a three-person submersible — with a camera ...
Scientists on a research vessel in the Atlantic Ocean found an orange sea creature with five arms and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Elion Jashari via Unsplash Thousands of ...
The Salas y Gómez Ridge is a small part of a chain of volcanic seamounts. Of the 160 different species the team identified, some 50 were undiscovered. “The observation of distinct ecosystems on ...