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Vancouver's "living Fossils" (Glass Sponge Reefs)


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First-Ever Submarine Dive on Vancouver's "Living Fossils":

Glass Sponge Reefs Researchers discover a seafloor oasis

made of hundreds of glass sponges by Anne Casselman

National Geographic http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/10/131018-glass-sponge-reef-canada-ocean-science/

'Jurassic Park submerged' visited in B.C. submarine dives

(Discovery of 40-million-year-old sponge species 'like

finding a herd of dinosaurs on land') CBC News

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/jurassic-park-submerged-visited-in-b-c-submarine-dives-1.2074402

Journey to the Sea of Glass: An Underwater Expedition to

BC’s Ancient Glass Sponge Reefs

http://cpawsbc.org/campaigns/sea-of-glass

Yours,

Paul H.

Edited by Oxytropidoceras
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Ah - when people told me about this item when it first hit the news, I got the impression that they thought glass sponges were rediscovered (which I knew they were still around, so that had to be wrong), or maybe a specific genus or species of them... but apparently it's REEF-FORMING glass sponges that have been found..

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