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500-million-year fossil record reveals corals' symbiotic advantage shifted with changing environments
- June 23, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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Coral reef ecosystems, widely seen as a climate change bellwether, are more complex than previously understood. A new international study by the universities of Bristol, Wuhan in China, and Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany reveals that the evolutionary advantage of coral-algae symbiosis is not fixed; it depends entirely on environmental context.
Originally published at Phys.org