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History repeats as coral reefs are devastated – Mirage News
A new study on coral evolution has found climates similar to what we’re seeing today have previously devastated hard-bodied corals—the architects of…
A new study on coral evolution has found climates similar to what we’re seeing today have previously devastated hard-bodied corals—the architects of coral reefs—while making way for their softer-bodied relatives.
The study traced the evolution of corals over the past 770 million years and found warmer and more acidic waters had a dramatic effect on the diversity of corals and sea anemones.
Hard or ‘stony’ corals that are the engineers of modern tropical reefs could only proliferate when ocean …
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