Coral reefs have generated more new kinds of animal than all other marine habitats put together. So concludes an analysis of the earliest fossils of more than 6000 sea-floor invertebrates, which found that reefs “gave birth” to close to 6 in 10 of the groups studied.

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Coral reefs are most fecund cradles of diversity