Coral Skeletons 3 (IMAGE)

Johns Hopkins University

Coral Skeletons 3

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Johns Hopkins University post-doc Justin Ries and collaborators demonstrated that corals can build their skeletons out of different minerals depending on the chemical composition of the seawater around them.

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Will Kirk/JHU

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