Scientists Discover 4,000-Feet Coral Reef In Australian Desert: Report
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Australia was surrounded by oceans and rain forests for hundreds of millions of years.The remnants of a millions of years old coral reef has been discovered in the middle of an Australian desert. The reef has been discovered in the Nullarbor Plain in southern Australia, which has now been transformed into a 76,000-square-mile desert with limestone bedrock, said a report in Newsweek. However, during the Cenozoic era, some 14 million years ago, the reef was believed to be submerged under a tropical ocean.Scientists from Curtin University's School of Earth and Planetary Sciences in Perth have identified these coral reefs as a bull's-eye form in fresh and high-resolution satellite photos, the outlet further said.The discovery has challenged their prior beliefs that the Nullarbor Plain...