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Extinction of cold-water corals on the Namibian shelf due to low oxygen contents

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Phys.org

Publication Date
2019-10-29

Researchers have only been aware of the existence of fossil cold-water corals off the coast of Namibia since 2016. But it was not known when and why the cold-water corals in this region became extinct. By dating fossil coral fragments, Leonardo Tamborrino of MARUM—Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen, and his co-authors have determined that this localized extinction event occurred around 4,500 years ago.

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