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Ancient Glow: Scientists Discover 540 Million-Year-Old Bioluminescent Corals


An international team of researchers, led by Danielle DeLeo from the Smithsonian Institution, has identified eight organisms with previously unknown luminosity. Using genetic findings from these organisms and previous studies, they estimated that coral bioluminescence originated about 540 million ye

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