discovered?
did not we know of submerged lands off the Brit coast already? Is not this some part of the earlier discovery?
“did not we know of submerged lands off the Brit coast already? Is not this some part of the earlier discovery?”
Of course, it has long been known the British Isles were connected to the European mainland in the earlier periods when the sea levels were lower. The difference in this case was how the remnants of a forest had been buried in the sediments of the sea floor until a recent series of storms removed enough of the sediment for divers to observe this newly re-exposed offshore submerged forest. This find will give researchers an opportunity to collect samples of the wood to be used for reconstruction of the habitat and its biome.