Natural History Wanderings

Smithsonian Magazine reported

Scientists have rediscovered a coral species they presumed had gone extinct, spotting it in the waters surrounding the Galápagos Islands for the first time in 24 years.Writing in the journal Marine Biology, biologists describe finding more than 250 healthy colonies of Rhizopsammia wellingtoni, a species of black stony coral that was last officially documented by researchers in 2000.

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