From New Orleans, at a meeting of the Society of Toxicology
DEATH THROES. A healthy coral (left) has splayed tentacles surrounding a deep-set mouth (bottom of image). Coral died when treated with a high dose of the toxic marine-paint–additive tributyl tin (right). Rocky skeleton surrounds a light-colored pile of sloughed-off dead cells.
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