Some of the Strangest Things on Earth That Are Only Found in the Deep Ocean

The Reef is Bigger Than Expected

Robin Beaman of James Cook University explained in an interview that researchers knew of the northern Great Barrier Reef since the 1970s, but that they had no idea that its shape and size was three times bigger than they expected it to be. Before the Australian navy used 3-D mapping technology to map out the area, scientists assumed that the reef was only 800 square miles long.