Mr. Trump issued an executive order opening up the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument, which lies some 750 ...

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 ...

In addition to mapping the seamount, the team conducted an exploratory dive using an underwater robot, which revealed rich biodiversity, including sponge gardens and ancient corals. "On this ...

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 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 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 ...