cm0002@europe.pub to Science@mander.xyz · 1 month agoLong Presumed Dead, a Thriving Coral Reef Is Discovered in West Africae360.yale.eduexternal-linkmessage-square3linkfedilinkarrow-up162arrow-down10cross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
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minus-squarezabadoh@ani.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 month ago …the (1960s) researchers shrugged off the discovery at the time, burying the find in a brief paragraph in a 130-something-page report. They may have wanted the reef to survive through obscurity, knowing that their own survey was to “discover potentially trawlable seabeds”.
They may have wanted the reef to survive through obscurity, knowing that their own survey was to “discover potentially trawlable seabeds”.