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Apr 2022
52m 19s

What’s A Day In The Life Of A Coral Reef...

Sony Music Entertainment / Jonathan Van Ness
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Coral are teeny tiny animals just two layers thick, and yet they create the biggest structures made by any biological creatures on the planet—like, the size of Italy big. Literally HOW! This week, Dr. Juli Berwald and Jonathan dive deep on all things coral, from their mating behaviors to their “badass merger” with algae to coral reefs’ critical importance to ... Show More
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