Science news articles about 'undersea mountains'

... New Zealand (AP) -- Marine scientists surveying a large undersea mountain chain were amazed to find millions of tiny starfish swirling their arms to capture food in the undersea current....

Undersea mountains several thousand meters high have been discovered subducted under a tectonic plate that constitutes the sea bottom off the Boso Peninsula in the southeastern part of the Kanto ...

A massive underwater mountain discovered off the Indonesian island of Sumatra could be a volcano with potentially catastrophic power, a scientist said Friday.

... at least one km above the seabed; fewer than 200 have been sampled in any detail. Undersea mountains can be highly productive and biodiverse, sometimes host unique species and serve as feeding ...

Hundreds of new marine species and previously uncharted undersea mountains and canyons have been discovered in the depths of the Southern Ocean, Australian scientists said Wednesday.

A spectacular new species of coral has been discovered thriving in veritable forests on the peaks of undersea mountains off the coast of the Pacific Northwest.

... a three-person submarine to explore marine life in the Gulf of California's deep-sea reefs and around undersea mountains called seamounts. The DeepSee submersible gave the researchers ...

... new tools for finding and accessing information on the biological communities that live on seamounts (undersea mountains), facilitating improved management of seamount resources, and conservation of ...