How an underwater drone found a coral reef written off in the 1960s still alive after more than 60 years

A coral reef off the coast of Benin, long presumed dead, has just been found alive and full of activity, more than sixty ...

Scientists marked this West African coral reef as probably dead in the 1960s; underwater drones found it alive more than 50 metres below the sea

After being presumed extinct for sixty years, a remarkable coral reef off West Africa has been rediscovered, thriving with an array of fish and coral species. This vibrant mesophotic coral ecosystem ...

Underwater drones discover coral reefs off Benin, long presumed dead, teeming with life

A coral reef, missing and presumed dead, has been found alive and well off the coast of Benin. Surveys in the 1960s, focused ...
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Coral Reef Long Presumed Dead Is Rediscovered ‘Teeming with Life’ Off Coast of Africa

The footage showed a seemingly healthy reef, with 8 different types of coral and 8 species of fish sheltering and feeding ...
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It was presumed dead for 60 years. Then scientists sent an underwater drone into the deep and saw this

After identifying a deep-sea coral garden off West Africa in the 1960s, researchers thought it was dead so didn’t explore it ...
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Coral reef presumed dead for 60 years found alive off Africa

A coral reef long presumed dead has been rediscovered "teeming with life" off the coast of West Africa. Researchers used ...