'It's a bit like finding a giant redwood tree in the middle of a botanical gardens.'
. "It attracts other species. There’s other corals, there’s fish, there’s other animals around that use it for shelter or for feeding, so it’s pretty important for them."The researchers were surprised to learn that such a huge coral had gone undiscovered for so long, but ultimately concluded it was probably because they found it in a region of the Great Barrier Reef that's particularly remote and well-protected, according to the.
It's reasonable, then, that tourists and other researchers just never stumbled upon it over the years.
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