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Aaron Bunch

EXPLAINED: Smelly spawning heralds new life on fragile reef | Rare Historical Photos

Billions of coral sperm and eggs have spawned on the 260km-long World Heritage-listed Ningaloo Reef. (PR IMAGE PHOTO)

A stinky underwater blizzard of new life has erupted on a cyclone-ravaged coral reef still recovering from a deadly marine-bleaching event.

Hundreds of millions of coral sperm and eggs have spawned on the 260km-long World Heritage-listed Ningaloo Reef in Western Australia's northwest in recent nights.

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