Baby corals dance their way home
Saturday, May 15, 2010 - 08:40
in Biology & Nature
Dr Steve Simpson, Senior Researcher in the University of Bristol's School of Biological Sciences discovered several years ago that baby reef fish use sound as a cue to find coral reefs, but was amazed when his Dutch collaborators in Curacao started finding that coral larvae - which must quickly find a safe place to land and establish a colony or they will die - can do the same thing...