Coral Eating Plastic (IMAGE)

Duke University

Coral Eating Plastic

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A white fleck of plastic is engulfed by a coral polyp. New research finds the non-nutritive food may simply 'taste good' to the corals.

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Alex Seymour, Duke University

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