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The cradle of Earth’s rich ocean life was a massive coral reef system 20 million years ago

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The cradle of Earth’s rich ocean life was a massive coral reef system 20 million years agoOleksandr Sushko/Unsplash

New research published today in Science Advances reveals that the largest expansion of coral reefs in the past 100 million years happened about 20 to 10 million years ago, between Australia and Southeast Asia.

This vast reef system likely laid the foundations for the extraordinary diversity of marine life we see today.

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