Brittlestars can survive acid oceans
As carbon dioxide levels rise, most researchers have assumed that increasingly acidic oceans will compromise the calcification processes of ocean organisms.But new results show that one delicate species, a brittlestar, actually bumps up the speed of shell production, or calcification, under such conditions.
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