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A new ghost-white deep-sea coral from the Nazca Ridge builds a tree-sized colony out of grains of sand — and its tissues just revealed chitin, the hidden glue that solves a mystery dating back to 1887.
A new deep-sea coral species from the Nazca Ridge carries chitin — the stuff of crab shells and butterfly wings — hidden in its tissue. It's the first chitin ever found in an octocoral, and it explains how boneless corals grow 10 metres tall.
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