Evidence of symbiosis was detected in fossilized coral specimens (pictured) dating back to the late Triassic period. Today's coral reefs are under threat from warming sea temperatures that cause ...

This is a fossilized coral — one of dozens scattered across the Indian Ocean archipelago of the Seychelles. It is a piece of history, hidden in plain sight. It tells of a time 125,000 years ago ...

Deep-sea coral fossils used by researchers to study carbon sequestration in the Southern Ocean 20,000 to 10,000 years ago. The Southern Ocean played a critical role in the rapid atmospheric carbon ...

“It has coral fossils, it has mollusk fossils, it is a reef and it is a shoreline, essentially.” He said this ancient shoreline stretches as far as the H1 freeway near Manoa and this type of ...

The ammonoid (the round, snail-ish fossil) has been replaced by pyrite. Pyrite formation requires an absence of oxygen (or the iron would oxidize) in reducing conditions, usually acidic. Replacement ...

One type of this mineral is coral calcium, derived from fossilized coral reefs. It is thought to be more readily absorbed by the body compared to other calcium forms. Coral calcium supplements can ...

Fossil fuel projects are putting the Pacific Coral Triangle’s unique marine ecosystem at risk, according to a new report presented Oct. 31 at the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity summit ...

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