The video surveys geological features on the ocean floor, from seamounts and underwater canyons to submarine volcanoes and ...

Over the last two decades, marine biologists have discovered lush forests of deep-sea corals and sponges growing on seamounts (underwater mountains) offshore of the California coast. It has generally ...

On September 6th, an international team of researchers assembled to survey deep-sea coral and sponge habitats on seamounts 300 miles offshore of the U.S.-Canada border in the Northeast Pacific Ocean.

Marine scientists aboard Schmidt Ocean Institute's research vessel Falkor have identified likely new marine species and deep sea organisms on nine seamounts that were explored for the first time in ...

Collect baseline information about the geological origins and mineral resources of seamounts in Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument and the animals and microbes that live on them to inform ...

Working alongside the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, NOAA developed a Monument Management Plan to guide the Monument's stewards in caring for this special place. This Plan establishes the long-term ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A new study found seamounts in Chile’s Juan Fernández Archipelago remained degraded 25 years after bottom trawling took place there, while an ...

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