August 25, 2004

8/25 - Good time to be a soft coral: Acid oceans may make skeletons weak

Guess it only makes sense. More carbon into the atmosphere, more carbon dioxide absorbed in the oceans, more acidic oceans, harder it is for creatures to build skeletons. Yeeks.

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Cry of the Soft Corals: "Ha, we waited 50 million years for this!"


Posted by Randy Olson at August 25, 2004 09:13 PM
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