Coral reef taller than Empire State Building discovered in Australia

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Australian scientists have discovered a detached reef more than 500 metres high – taller than the Empire State Building – at the northern end of the Great Barrier Reef.

The “blade-like” vertical reef about 130km off Cape York, Australia’s north-eastern tip, was found during a 3D seabed mapping exercise conducted from a ship owned by the Californian non-profit Schmidt Ocean Institute.

“What it highlights is how little we know about a lot of the ocean, even the Great Barrier Reef. The marine park is 344,000 square kilometres – bigger than many European countries – and only about 6 or 7% of that is typical shallow-water reefs.

The newly discovered reef does not appear to have a lot of hard corals in its upper section, but has “an incredible abundance” of sponges, sea fans and soft corals, suggesting the area is rich in nutrients carried by strong currents and upwellings of deep waters.

  

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/oct/28/scientists-discover-500-metre-tall-skyscraper-reef-at-australias-great-barrier-reef

[Illundressyou 447]

That is incredible!! I just hope it won't meet the same fate as other reefs

[TimisaMonster 31,073]

Wow nature did THAT! 

Look at all the species that call it home! 

We need to protect the coral reefs! 

[Lord Temptation 11,209]

But according to radical leftwingers the great barrier reef is irreversibly dying and had less than 15 years left? 

Like how they predicted empty dams and no rain for 4 months back in January when we had bushfires, only to have dams at 100% capacity and record breaking rain all year 

Don’t @ me I’m only having a go at the doom and gloom radical wingers, not all lefties (I’m a lefty myself so, but a balanced one) 

[Babba the Hutt 453]

I really hope government and industries don't ruin this as usual.

[RahrahWitch 6,985]

Wow, that so beautiful.

Hopefully It wont bleach in response to warmer waters thanks to climate change like others have done.

[Luke78619 23,559]

Weird to think that there are living beings in the ocean that have never come across a human and don’t know they exist 

[junglejim4322 95]

8 minutes ago, Luke78619 said:

Weird to think that there are living beings in the ocean that have never come across a human and don’t know they exist 

Think about how many species and creatures exist that we have no idea of  Nature fascinates me so much