Urgent.News

One page, thousands of outlets. See who else covered it.

Editions

Science

These Coral Reefs Off West Africa Were Long Presumed Dead. Scientists Just Found Them Alive and Teeming With Life

Fish surveys in the 1960s detected what experts thought was a dead coral reef barrier off the country of Benin. Decades later, researchers set off in small fishing boats to investigate it using sonar mapping, underwater drone surveys and stationary video recorders

These Coral Reefs Off West Africa Were Long Presumed Dead. Scientists Just Found Them Alive and Teeming With Life

We haven't written up this one. Smithsonian has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.

Read the original at smithsonianmag.com →

More in Science

More from Tuesday 18 August →