Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>The Secret Sex Lives of Deep, Dark Corals<br><a href="https://www.biographic.com/the-secret-sex-lives-of-deep-dark-corals/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">biographic.com/the-secret-sex-</span><span class="invisible">lives-of-deep-dark-corals/</span></a></p><p>"A unique fjord in Chilean <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Patagonia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Patagonia</span></a> gives scientists a chance to unlock the reproductive secrets of cold-water <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/corals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corals</span></a> that typically live thousands of meters below the surface... Instead of partnering with <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/algae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>algae</span></a> within its cells for food, <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Desmophyllum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Desmophyllum</span></a> catches <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/plankton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>plankton</span></a> with stinging tentacles... cold-water corals live throughout the world’s oceans, providing habitat at least as critical as that of tropical <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/CoralReefs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CoralReefs</span></a>"</p>