A new study has found living coral reefs off the coast of Benin on a stretch of West African seafloor that scientists wrote off as dead more than 60 years ago. Soft corals and sea fans are growing there about 177 feet (54 meters) down, with reef fish moving among them.
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A coral reef long presumed dead has been rediscovered “teeming with life” off the coast of West Africa.
More than 175 feet beneath the waves off the West African country of Benin, a coral reef, once considered a graveyard by scientists, is thriving. The deepwater reef was written off as a relic of a bygone area by researchers surveying the Gulf of Guinea in the early 1960s. But more than six decades later,…