Cryo-Born Baby Corals:
The world’s first cryo-born baby corals have been successfully introduced into the Great Barrier Reef, marking a groundbreaking achievement in coral restoration and conservation.Australian scientists used cutting-edge cryopreservation to fertilize coral eggs with cryopreserved sperm collected from the Great Barrier Reef.Scientists grew the corals in the National Sea Simulator before transferring them to specially designed ‘coral cradles’ on the Reef. It aims to introduce heat-tolerant corals to protect reefs from climate change and rising ocean temperatures.
