Coral in sentence

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This is one of my favorite corals, and always has been: dendrogyra cylindrus, the pillar coral.

And this was in part because in over 30 years of research surveys, scientists had never found a baby pillar coral.

So this is the first pillar coral baby that anyone ever saw.

So we're starting to figure out the secrets to this process, the secrets of coral reproduction and how we might help them.

We don't know if it was our handling methods that went wrong and we don't know if it was just this coral on this reef, always suffering from low fertility.

Whatever the cause, we have much more work to do before we can use baby corals to grow or fix or, yes, maybe save coral reefs.

Coral reefs are hardworking animals and plants and microbes and fungi.

But a few made it anyway, despite our best efforts, and now it's time for us to thank them for the work they did and give them every chance they have to raise the coral reefs of the future, their coral babies.

You don't see that kind of spectacular coral abundance everywhere.

And here you can see us collecting that coral with a vacuum system, and we put it into a sampling container.

This is a black coral called Leiopathes, an image taken by my colleague, Brendan Roark, about 500 meters below Hawaii.

So on the left-hand image here, I've taken a slice through a coral, polished it very carefully and taken an optical image.

On the right-hand side, we've taken that same piece of coral, put it in a nuclear reactor, induced fission, and every time there's some decay, you can see that marked out in the coral, so we can see the uranium distribution.

This is a spectacular coral garden.

It is textured to allow coral polyps to attach.

Staghorn coral morphs the form.

All species in an ecosystem, from the creatures in a coral reef to the fish in a lake to the lions on the savannah, are directly or indirectly nourished by dead stuff.

But then we started to find other fluorescent marine life, like this green fluorescent bream, with its, like, racing stripes along its head and its nape, and it's almost camouflaged and fluorescing at the same intensity as the fluorescent coral there.

The only time we've ever seen this, it's either on red fluorescent algae or red fluorescent coral.

So I'm, like, a coral biologist.

I pictured big sharks ruling the food chain and saw graceful sea turtles dancing across coral reefs.

And I can still vividly remember furiously finning to reach this old, encrusted cannon on a shallow coral reef.

From the shores of Africa we travel east, across the vastness that is the Indian Ocean to the Maldives, an archipelago of coral islands.

Very few people have heard of Bassas da India, a tiny speck of coral in the Mozambique Channel.

Never before have I encountered so many sharks on a single coral outcrop.

And I always operate on the assumption that the next great picture that will effect change is right around the corner, behind the next coral head, inside the next lagoon or possibly, in the one after it.

They also need these carbonate ions in seawater to make their coral structure in order to build coral reefs.

It's projected that by the end of this century, 70 percent of all known cold-water corals in the entire ocean will be surrounded by seawater that is dissolving their coral structure.

After six months, the coral has almost completely dissolved.

Now coral reefs support 25 percent of all marine life in the entire ocean.

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