![]() The really remarkable thing, however, is that these glass sponge reefs had formerly been known only as fossil deposits such as enormous cliffs stretching on land from Portugal to Romania. The reefs, in 200 meters of water, covered about 1000 square kilometers of sea floor and rose as high as a seven-story building. Upon further investigation, the scientists discovered that the mounds were, in fact, reefs made up of glass sponges. Canadian scientists mapping the seafloor near Vancouver Island came across some signals suggesting that there were huge, mysterious mounds on the sediments below them. One such remarkable story took place off the northwest coast of British Columbia (Canada) where some glass sponge reefs were first detected. ![]() It is not every day that one discovers living organisms which were formerly known only as fossils. Surprise engineers with its optimal physics? ![]()
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