{"id":3162,"date":"2016-04-25T00:35:13","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T16:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/25\/unique-coral-reef-ecosystem-discovered-in-the-amazon-river-2\/"},"modified":"2016-04-25T00:35:13","modified_gmt":"2016-04-24T16:35:13","slug":"unique-coral-reef-ecosystem-discovered-in-the-amazon-river-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/25\/unique-coral-reef-ecosystem-discovered-in-the-amazon-river-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Unique coral reef ecosystem discovered in the Amazon river"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A reef ecosystem unlike any seen before has just been discovered at the mouth of the Amazon River.<\/p>\n

Wedged between the French Guiana-Brazil border and the Maranh\u00e3o State in Brazil, the reef lies underneath a plume of river water, helping to explain how it went undetected for so long, suggests a new study, which is published in the journal Science Advances<\/i>.<\/p>\n

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SEE ALSO: Photos: Life in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

For over 60 years, however, scientists have suspected that reefs might be in the region.<\/p>\n

Senior author Fabiano Thompson told Discovery News<\/i>, \u201cThere were some studies back in the 1950s that suggested the presence of reefs, but none pinpointed the reef bodies, dimensions, locations and compositions.\u201d Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A reef ecosystem unlike any seen before has just been discovered at the mouth of the Amazon River. Wedged between the French Guiana-Brazil border and the Maranh\u00e3o State in Brazil, the reef lies underneath a plume of river water, helping … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1036,2429,2430,2431,2432],"class_list":["post-3162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-amazon","tag-discoveries","tag-discovery","tag-reef","tag-reefs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}