Some Mediterranean Corals Can 'Rise From the Dead' After Fatal Warming Events (3 of 9) (IMAGE)

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Some Mediterranean Corals Can 'Rise From the Dead' After Fatal Warming Events (3 of 9)

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Cladocora caespitosa reef in the Columbretes Islands (NW Mediterranean Sea), where the study has been undertaken. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Oct. 9th, 2019, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by D.K. Kersting at Freie Universität Berlin in Berlin, Germany, and colleagues was titled, "Living evidence of a fossil survival strategy raises hope for warming-impacted corals."

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[Credit: Diego K. Kersting]

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