Amazing scientific findings in the Gulf of Mexico

US scientists have claimed to have discovered and identified the date of ancient coral reefs in the area near the BP's Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf of Mexico last year.

According to the US Geological Survey (USGS) , a 2,000-year-old coral reef has been found 34km northeast of BP's oil well and at a depth of 300m. This is the first time USGS has identified the age of black corals in this area.

Scientists say they studied the ancient coral reef before the Deepwater Horizon rig incident on April 20 last year and found that the coral is growing and growing very slowly.

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Experts also found dead corals to the southwest of the oil well and proceeded to find out the risk of ancient corals affected by BP oil spill, but so far there has been no official result. .

Black corals develop on submerged organic entities in the seabed for tens of years, even hundreds of years, to grow from ephemeral to ecosystem.

An expert of USGS said corals grow very slowly, human fingernails grow 2,000 times faster than them.

The Florida Commission for Conservation of Fish and Wildlife has announced the discovery of a shell-like, exotic, soft-shell species.

This strange creature was taken by a fisherman in the Gulf of Mexico and donated to the Commission and the Wildlife Research Institute of St.Peterburg in 2009.

These samples were then sent to Polytechnic University , California, where studies of unknown species.

This discovery was published in the American Malacological Bulletin on March 30 last.