Over the course of four years, Miami native Michael Zimmer spent dozens of hours underwater filming a team of scientists as they meticulously removed samples of healthy corals from the reefs within ...

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GALVESTON, Texas -- In the early morning, at a lab not too far from the Galveston coast, Shannon Ainsworth is collecting hundreds of tiny, floating brown eggs from a tank of deep-sea coral. She sticks ...