{"id":153495,"date":"2026-06-25T10:06:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T10:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=153495"},"modified":"2026-06-25T10:06:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T10:06:40","slug":"china-discovers-rare-coral-reef-blue-hole-in-the-disputed-scarborough-shoal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=153495","title":{"rendered":"China discovers rare coral reef blue hole in the disputed Scarborough Shoal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina has identified a rare coral reef blue hole within the Scarborough Shoal, a hotly contested feature in the South China Sea that is now a major flashpoint in the region.<br \/>\nA marine blue hole is a deep, circular sinkhole in the ocean and is typically bright turquoise or emerald green.<br \/>\nUnlike most of the world\u2019s known blue holes \u2013 which were once caves on land thousands of years ago during the last Ice Age \u2013 the newly discovered marine blue hole within the Scarborough Shoal lagoon was formed by&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3358352\/china-discovers-rare-coral-reef-blue-hole-disputed-scarborough-shoal?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina has identified a rare coral reef blue hole within the Scarborough Shoal, a hotly contested feature in the South China Sea that is&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153495"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}