A coral reef off the coast of Benin that was thought to be dead for decades has been found alive and apparently healthy.
Surveys conducted in the 1960s, which were primarily designed to locate productive fishing grounds, identified what appeared to be a deep-water coral reef. At the time, researchers concluded that the reef was probably dead. More than 60 years later, scientists returned to the area armed with modern sonar and the Deep Sea Camera System provid...

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