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Spawn slick

When coral broadcast their egg-sperm bundles, the buoyant particles rise to the water's surface and color it a bright pink, as they did here in 2005, at the Scott Reef in western Australia. The embryos and larvae stick around for one to two days before settling to the ocean bottom and being consumed by hungry ocean dwellers. Credit: AAAS/Science

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