How Freezing Coral Sperm Could Save Our Reefs
Scientist Mary Hagedorn is racing to save marine life through cryobiology
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5 min readNov 20, 2018
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For six weeks over this past summer, Mary Hagedorn waited on the island of Curaçao for the one night a year that elkhorn coral — a large branching coral that resembles elk antlers — spawn. Finally, as summer spilled into September, the environmentally threatened…