Gulf's puzzling black corals are 2,000 years old

Wednesday, April 6, 2011 - 19:00 in Biology & Nature

For the first time, scientists have been able to validate the age of the mysterious deep sea black corals found in the Gulf of Mexico. A new study puts them at a venerable 2,000 years old.

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