Some corals change sex each year so they can find mates
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- January 11, 2024
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Hammer coral, also known as anchor coral, in Lembeh Strait in Indonesia Marli Wakeling/Alamy When hammer coral says, “new year, new me”, it truly means it: many colonies of the coral species change their sex annually. The pattern seems to be a first among animals. In 2011, at the National Taiwan Ocean University and his colleagues were surveying hammer corals ( ) in the tropical West Pacific Ocean. The researchers discovered that many of the colonies had changed sex since the previous year. Read more
