Seamount Discovery: 🦑 Spaghetti Monster & Rare Ocean Creatures

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Beneath the ocean's waves, a new underwater mountain has been discovered on the Nazca Ridge, 900 miles off Chile's coast, revealing rare marine life like deep-sea octopuses and coral gardens. This seamount, taller than the world’s highest building, highlights how much of our planet's seafloor remains unexplored, despite ongoing efforts to map it by 2030. While space exploration continues with challenges—like delays in the Polaris Dawn mission—on Earth, we're still uncovering secrets, including matching dinosaur footprints found on separate continents, and solving a 15-million-year-old mystery of a sea cow’s demise.

 

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Wow, discovering a towering seamount full of bizarre deep-sea creatures like the Spaghetti Monster really makes you appreciate how much of our planet, even the ocean's depths, still remains a thrilling mystery!