With more than 530 species of sharks within the world's oceans, these predators play a major role in stabilizing the ...

It's the first time a single seamount in the Pacific Ocean has been artistically visualized with this level of precision. The team mapped a seamount located on the edge of the United States ...

The study -- led by the University of Exeter and the Ascension Island Government -- examined three seamounts off Ascension Island in the South Atlantic Ocean. Two were shallow seamounts ...

Of all Earth’s seamounts, marine biologists have studied only a few hundred. More finely detailed maps of the surface of Mars may exist than of the remotest parts of the ocean floor. Scientists ...

Undersea mountains are key locations for predators—with 41 times more sharks than the open ocean, new research shows. The study—led by the University of Exeter and the Ascension Island ...

Scientists have made a never-before-seen discovery located some 36,000 feet below the surface of the Earth. Located in the ...

The seamount’s most recent eruption was in 1996 ... and the instruments tend to be short-lived against the wear of the ocean. Beginning in 1997, the University of Hawaii deployed the Hawaii ...

The expedition, spearheaded by global ocean exploration organizations OceanX and Ocean Quest, is an endorsed initiative of ...

Although the Kamaehuakanaloa Seamount has been a little restless recently, new information about the undersea volcano is ...

Volcanic eruptions in the middle of tectonic plates, far from any volcanically-active plate boundaries, have created many of the thousands of ocean islands and seamounts that cover Earth's ocean ...

The South African Environmental Observation Network (NRF-SAEON), a long-term environmental observation and research facility of the National Research, is participating in the Around Africa Expedition, ...

The study – led by the University of Exeter and the Ascension Island Government – examined three seamounts off Ascension Island in the South Atlantic Ocean. Two were shallow seamounts ...