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DNA gleaned from ancient coral unlocks clues about warming
The skeletons in the Earth's closet reveal not only a dark past. They also cast a light on its future.
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Mountains in the Sea Expedition. Basalt rocks covered in corals (live and dead), crinoids, sponges, and brittle stars.
Source: The Boston Globe | The Boston Globe
| 12-01-2008
That is what Tim Shank discovered when he sent an underwater robot to sweep up a basket full of broccoli-like fossils from volcanoes under the sea. Shank, a researcher at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, found skeletons of 35,000- to 40,000-year-old corals littered on the New England Seamounts in the North Atlantic. He took them back to his laboratory, extracted what he could of their remaining DNA fragments, and started to piece together their past.
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