Five highlights in your travel week | 8 Dec

By John Rozentals
Updated December 8 2017 - 9:49am, first published 9:20am
Professor Peter Harrison … “From our previous studies, we know that microscopic larvae, once settled, can grow into dinner-plate-size corals in just three years and become sexually reproductive.”
Professor Peter Harrison … “From our previous studies, we know that microscopic larvae, once settled, can grow into dinner-plate-size corals in just three years and become sexually reproductive.”

A ground-breaking coral reef experiment, likened to the world’s biggest IVF procedure, could be the answer to a healthy future for the Great Barrier Reef, which, at 70 million football fields in size, is the world’s largest living organism.

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