Ancient Florida species killed off by 2023 heat wave, study finds

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/ancient-florida-species-killed-off-150218496.html

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  1. **From USA Today:**

    After 10,000 years, they’re now gone.

    Nearly all of Florida’s critically endangered Acropora coral colonies are now dead, after a record-breaking ocean heat wave in 2023. This marks the species’ “functional extinction in Florida’s Coral Reef,” researchers report in a [new study released in the journal Science on Oct. 23.](https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adx7825)

    Acropora is a common genus of coral, which includes over 149 species of small stony corals, many of which are well-known and vital for reef-building, such as staghorn, elkhorn, and table corals.

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  3. Do we have some in captivity still? Like once we finally fix all this, will we be able to reintroduce it? (I’m aware this is optimistic to the point of foolishness, but I want to believe that human scientific and technological prowess will eventually get us there)

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