Biogeographical regions of marine organisms, i.e., their distribution across different habitats, often overlap well with the ...

In the mid-20th century, when people looked at a map of the world, they saw the familiar continents surrounded by vast, ...

The map, compiled using high-resolution data from the SWOT satellite, has revealed the existence of nearly 100,000 submerged mountains, called seamounts, scattered across the ocean floor.

Older satellites have mapped large seamounts, but the team spotted thousands of smaller, previously unknown seamounts less than 3,300 feet (1,000 meters) tall in the SWOT data.

An ultra-detailed map of the ocean floor uses gravity-based data collected by satellite. NASA and CNES launched the satellite to survey Earth’s surface water.

A seamount nearly twice the height of the world’s tallest building has been discovered on the ocean floor near Guatemala — and serves as a biodiversity hot spot.