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 ...

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 ...

Although the Kamaehuakanaloa Seamount has been a little restless recently, new information about the undersea volcano is still sparse. The volcano, formerly called Loihi Seamount, is about 22 ...

“In some places around the islands and seamounts, two worlds potentially collide ... Cabo Verde is known as a hotspot of ocean biodiversity. The aim of marine protected areas is to preserve natural ...

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 ...