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Home Education Corals How Do Corals Reproduce?

Corals Releasing Eggs

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This close-up photo shows rows of individual brain coral polyps in different stages of releasing their eggs. Images like these are very hard to obtain because mass synchronized spawnings only occur on a few nights each year. (Photo: Burek)

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