Ancient Coral Reefs Dodged Extinction – Can Modern Reefs Do the Same?

Research indicates that stromatoporoids, ancient reef-builders, withstood the Late Devonian extinction and prospered into the Carboniferous Period. Will modern coral reefs go extinct? The answer is uncertain, but some of their ancient counterparts managed to dodge a bullet — for a while, at least. Scientists from Osaka Metropolitan University have discovered that ancient reef-building organisms [...]

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