A seamount nearly twice the height of the world’s tallest building has been discovered on the ocean floor near Guatemala — and serves as a biodiversity hot spot. CNN values your feedback 1.

The seamount covers an area of about 70 square kilometers, with its summit at a depth of 994 meters and the base at 4,103 meters. A digital map of the newly discovered seamount.

Axial Seamount, one of the most active underwater volcanoes in the world, measures more than a mile wide and stands 3,600 feet from the seafloor.It has erupted three times over the past three ...

The newly discovered seamount off the coast of Chile is 3,109 meters or 1.9 miles tall. - Schmidt Ocean Institute Many of the world’s highest mountains aren’t visible on land — they rise up ...

Flying spaghetti monsters and other rare species hidden in the mountain. The seamount, which supports a "thriving" ecosystem, is 1.9 miles tall, making it taller than five One World Trade Centers ...

ANTHONY B. WATTS, ANTHONY A. P. KOPPERS, DAVID P. ROBINSON, Seamount Subduction and Earthquakes, Oceanography, Vol. 23, No. 1, Special Issue on Mountains in the Sea (MARCH 2010), pp. 166-173 Free ...

Axial is the world’s most extensively studied undersea volcano because more than 660 miles of undersea cables crisscross it, sending a steady stream of real-time data about the area to scientists.

The recently discovered seamount may be taller than the world’s tallest building, but some have been found to have a height of 4,000 meters (13,123 feet) or more, Watling said.

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — A massive underwater mountain, otherwise known as a seamount, has been discovered on the floor of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Guatemala. The seamount is ...