Corals switch skeleton material as seawater changes
Leopards may not be able to change their spots, but corals can change their skeletons, building them out of different minerals depending on the chemical composition of the seawater around them. Postdoctoral fellow Justin Ries and his collaborators...Corals that can fight global warming may one day help fragile reefs
While humans can survive large temperature fluctuations, such species as corals are only comfortable within a 12-degree temperature range. And rising global temperatures appear to be threatening their survival, according to Drew Harvell, Cornell professor of ecology and evolutionary biology. However, she noted in presenting a paper at the annual meeting of the American Association for the...Corals -- More complex than you?
The humble coral may possess as many genes ?and possibly even more ?than humans do. Corals are among the simplest animals in the world ?yet they may possess a set...