Continental drift created biologically diverse coral reefs

Nowhere today is the biodiversity of corals and reef-inhabiting fish higher than in the tropical waters around Indonesia and its neighbouring countries in Southeast Asia. "To understand the reason for this diversity, you have to look back 100 million years - to a time when present-day South America and Africa still formed a common supercontinent and today's India was an island in the Earth's southern hemisphere," says Loïc Pellissier, Professor of Landscape Ecology at ETH Zurich and the Swi