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Another option involves collecting “fragments of opportunity” – coral pieces broken off by natural causes such as storms. Conservationists can also propagate from egg bundles collected ...

Powered by The Great Barrier Reef Foundation - saving our irreplaceable Reef and its marine life for future generations. These are coral egg and sperm bundles. They might be tiny. But their ...

she will test new laboratory methods for fertilizing coral eggs, a critical process that often fails when corals are rare or stressed. Marhaver aims to help scientists and restoration teams ...

Most corals spawn all at once, once a year. This usually happens just after a full moon when the coral eject trillions of eggs and sperm into the water at night. Algae give corals their striking ...

Since 2022, the scientists with the deep-sea coral project in Galveston are studying ways to restore the 12 different coral species from the spill's damage. For Ainsworth, most days this means ...