And the continent of africa on the move the stories about to move a vision of change makers taking their destinies into their own hands. D. W. Multimedia series food for. D. W. B. Dot com africa. Hitchin to the science show on t. W. Well come to you tomorrow today coming up. A look back in time to a flying reptile as big as a truck and. A critical view of Virtual Reality is poised to change our world. And we celebrate the artists return to switzerland and the citizen scientist who was stalking them. But first we head to the dark and mysterious world of the deep sea. Only around five percent of the worlds oceans have been explored their home to a vast range of creatures from delicate jellyfish to terrifying predators. Off the coast of North Western africa a team of researchers has discovered it gigantic structure on the sea bed built by corals. Of this amazing underwater landscape is being researched by a team from the university of braman a reef four hundred kilometers long and up to o
darkness they rely on currents to deliver tiny particles of food for them to absorb and often in. those particles are plankton which drift like snowflakes through the oceans the supply at those depths is meager so cold water corals grow slowly not more than fifteen metres in the flowers and years. still the team have discovered. donnish in coral formations. the aphelion found very many reefs especially in the atlantic with coral mounds some more than three hundred meters tall. that s as tall as the eiffel tower all the t.v. tower and violins that s really big. absolut say you believe in to find out more about how the reef may mauritania developed cloudy i ve been back and her colleagues collected samples of fossil coral from different layers they
often. those particles are plankton which drift like snowflakes through the oceans the supply at those depths is meager so cold water corals grow slowly not more than fifteen meters in a thousand years. still the team have discovered. donnish in coral formations. the aphelion found very many reefs especially in the atlantic with coral mounds some more than three hundred meters tall. and that s as tall as the eiffel tower all the t.v. tower and berlin that s really big. absolut was a huge empty without sin to find out more about how the reef may mauritania developed cloudy of him back and her colleagues collected samples of fossil coral from different layers they determined that it had been growing for a million years but then it stopped. to begin their hard