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4 Years Ago, This Stunning Island Didn't Exist. Now, It's Teeming With Life
https://www.sciencealert.com/pop-up-island-born-out-of-a-volcano-in-the-ocean-is-now-thriving-with-life?fbclid=IwAR3a439wzGFyfYO9hSmaXRdDPCGyN4cTVBxLDr-cPG9ZDcgPc0F0nDzQ4i0
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In addition to patches of vegetation growing on the land mass (suspected to have been seeded by bird droppings), the team also spied hundreds of seabirds called sooty terns (Onychoprion fuscatus) nesting in Hunga Tonga's cliff gullies, along with a solitary barn owl passing overhead.
Even if the island turns out to be short-lived, a lot of little sooty terms should be born in these cliffs until then.
