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Seamount twice the size of world's tallest building discovered 'hidden under the waves'

Researchers detected the seamount using multibeam sonar aboard the vessel Falkor (too). (Image credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute)

Ocean explorers mapping the seabed off the coast of Guatemala have discovered a mountain twice as high as the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, hiding deep beneath the waves.

The 5,250-foot-tall (1,600 meters) formation is a seamount — a large, underwater geological feature typically formed from an extinct volcano. Scientists discovered the cone-shaped seamount 7,870 feet (2,400 m) below sea level during an expedition organized by the Schmidt Ocean Institute this summer, according to a statement shared with Live Science.

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