Fossils Show Corals Survived Past Warming
Oct. 23, 2006 — A critical reef-building coral that has been thought especially vulnerable to global warming of seas may not be so frail after all.
A new study of past climate effects on the same kinds of corals, now fossilized on land in the Dominican Republic, shows that Acropora cervicornis has done just fine through other warm times and even managed to survive through times when the water was particularly mucky.
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A new study of past climate effects on the same kinds of corals, now fossilized on land in the Dominican Republic, shows that Acropora cervicornis has done just fine through other warm times and even managed to survive through times when the water was particularly mucky.
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