What If Earth Lost All Its Coral Reefs?

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How many sea animals would face extinction? Could the corals rebuild themselves from scratch? How would this massive die-off affect humanity? Corals are not rocks. They are huge colonies of a distant relative of the jellyfish — coral polyps. And like all living things, they die.

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