From Boston, at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
OLD ONE. A living fuzz of orange polyps covers the black skeleton of the oldest coral yet to be sampled and dated. T. Kerby and M. Cremer/ Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory
A black coral collected near the Hawaiian Islands may set a new record for age among coral kind: some 4,200 years.
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