(BIVN) – Life has been found in the new anchialine ponds that appeared at Pohoiki, after the shoreline was transformed by the 2018 eruption of Kīlauea.

Fourteen months after the end of the lava flow that transformed the area around the popular Isaac Hale Beach Park in Puna, officials say the pools that were created on the new black sand beach now harbor native organisms.

According to the Hawaiʻi DLNR: