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Alice Amelia Thomas

Stony Corals Use Fan System To Save Themselves From Climate Change

Corals have developed a sophisticated internal fan system to protect themselves from climate change, a new study has revealed.

Coral reefs are under threat from coral bleaching which eventually leads to starvation. Global warming can disrupt the algae on the coral – which give it its vivid colors – leaving it white, fragile and more likely to starve.

Now scientists have revealed how a special internal cooling system is saving stony corals–or Scleractinia–from environmental stress.

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