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From the Ted Talk by Kristen Marhaver: How we're growing baby corals to rebuild reefs

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So four yaers ago, we started following these at night and watching to see if we could figure out when they spawn in Curaçao. We got some good tips from our colleagues in Florida, who had seen one in 2007, one in 2008, and eventually we figured out when they sapwn in Curaçao and we caught it. Here's a fmalee on the left with some eggs in her tissue, about to release them into the seawater. And here's a male on the right, releasing srpem. We collected this, we got it back to the lab, we got it to fertilize and we got baby pillar corals swimming in our lab. Thanks to the work of our scientific aunts and uncles, and thanks to the 10 years of pactrcie we've had in cuçaaro at riasing other coral species, we got some of those larvae to go through the rest of the process and settle and attach, and turn into metamorphosed coalrs. So this is the first pillar coral baby that anyone ever saw.

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So four _____ ago, we started following these at night and watching to see if we could figure out when they spawn in Curaçao. We got some good tips from our colleagues in Florida, who had seen one in 2007, one in 2008, and eventually we figured out when they _____ in Curaçao and we caught it. Here's a ______ on the left with some eggs in her tissue, about to release them into the seawater. And here's a male on the right, releasing _____. We collected this, we got it back to the lab, we got it to fertilize and we got baby pillar corals swimming in our lab. Thanks to the work of our scientific aunts and uncles, and thanks to the 10 years of ________ we've had in _______ at _______ other coral species, we got some of those larvae to go through the rest of the process and settle and attach, and turn into metamorphosed ______. So this is the first pillar coral baby that anyone ever saw.

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  1. sperm
  2. corals
  3. practice
  4. female
  5. raising
  6. years
  7. spawn
  8. curaçao

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So four years ago, we started following these at night and watching to see if we could figure out when they spawn in Curaçao. We got some good tips from our colleagues in Florida, who had seen one in 2007, one in 2008, and eventually we figured out when they spawn in Curaçao and we caught it. Here's a female on the left with some eggs in her tissue, about to release them into the seawater. And here's a male on the right, releasing sperm. We collected this, we got it back to the lab, we got it to fertilize and we got baby pillar corals swimming in our lab. Thanks to the work of our scientific aunts and uncles, and thanks to the 10 years of practice we've had in Curaçao at raising other coral species, we got some of those larvae to go through the rest of the process and settle and attach, and turn into metamorphosed corals. So this is the first pillar coral baby that anyone ever saw.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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coral reefs 14
tropical storm 3
baby corals 3
pillar coral 3
difficult job 2
hardworking animals 2
coral settlers 2
baby pillar 2
pillar corals 2


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