TOKYO: A new Japanese island formed by a volcanic explosion will provide a unique “natural laboratory” for exploring the starting point of evolution, according to scientists.
Nishinomiya, located 621 miles south of Tokyo, emerged from the Pacific Ocean following a volcanic explosion in November 2013 and now spans around 0.95 square miles.
The island, currently a barren expanse of rock formed from cooling lava, is thought to possess the optimum conditions to transform into a developed ecosystem with plants and possibly animals.
“We biologists are very much focusing on the new island because we’ll be able to observe the starting point of evolutionary processes,” Dr Naoki Kachi, professor and leader of the Tokyo Metropolitan University’s Ogasawara Research Committee, told AFP news agency.
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