Coral Growing Tank (IMAGE)

University of Washington

Coral Growing Tank

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Jeremy Axworthy removes a young coral from a tank at the team's University of Washington lab. The two coral species shown here are Pocillopora damicornis (left), known as cauliflower coral, and Montipora capitatae (right), or rice coral. Cauliflower coral was more likely to ingest microplastics during the team's experiments.

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Dennis Wise/University of Washington

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