New Nature paper! Vaga et al. (2025) reconstruct a time-calibrated phylogeny of stony (scleractinian) corals, which suggests that some could be resilient to climate change. Congrats @claudiavaga.bsky.social Link to paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

A global coral phylogeny reveals resilience and vulnerability through deep time - Nature

The most recent common ancestor of the stony coral Scleractinia dates to about 460 million years ago and was probably a solitary, heterotrophic and free-living organism.

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This is an INCREDIBLE advance in our understanding of coral diversification. 🪸🎉 Fantastic new work led by @claudiavaga.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A global coral phylogeny reveals resilience and vulnerability through deep time - Nature

The most recent common ancestor of the stony coral Scleractinia dates to about 460 million years ago and was probably a solitary, heterotrophic and free-living organism.

nature.com

𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁! Meet 𝘛𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘢𝘻𝘰𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘶𝘴 𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘪𝘳𝘢𝘪 Vaga, Migotto & Kitahara, 2021—a zoantharian coral described from SE Brazil by @claudiavaga.bsky.social and colleagues (doi.org/10.1080/1745...). Fun Fact: 𝘛. 𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘪𝘳𝘢𝘪 forms symbiotic relationships with sponges rather than reef-building corals.🦑🧪🌊🐙

Welcome to the Coral Lab! 🪸 🦑🧪🌊🐙 This page shares new research and discoveries related to coral taxonomy, systematics, and evolutionary history. To kick things off, here’s a few of our favorite coral research and discoveries of 2024! A thread 🧵1/7