QLD fossils shed light on issued faced by the Great Barrier Reef
Queensland's north Burnett region is scattered with rock formations from a time when it was covered in oceans with a thriving coral reef. Researchers are hoping the fossils left behind from this ancient reef formation can help shed a light on modern day issues facing the Great Barrier Reef.
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00:00 Blink and you'll miss them, but these rock formations in Queensland's North Burnet are
00:09 a link to ancient times.
00:12 A person just driving by, it just looks like a grey limestone sticking up.
00:16 And so you could miss it so easily.
00:19 They're called coral bombies and they're part of a reef structure you'd normally see off
00:24 the coast.
00:27 This is one of the fossil corals from Old Coninda.
00:30 While the Coninda Reef near Montauk, west of Bundaberg, is no longer alive, researchers
00:35 hope it holds secrets to help protect the Great Barrier Reef.
00:40 By understanding how they have reacted to change in their environment through time,
00:45 it gives us a lot more information about what might happen to the current environments as
00:49 they change.
00:51 Artists are helping to bring the ancient reef to life.
00:54 I think this is really an important part of Montauk's development.
00:59 Learning from the past.
01:01 It's part of where we are now and it's made the country what it is and it needs to be
01:08 on it and taken care of.
01:10 To protect future reefs.
01:11 The more we know about these reactions, the better prepared we are to understand what
01:16 we might face in the future.
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