Coral larvae survive being frozen and thawed for the first time
A technique called cryopreservation might help save some threatened coral reefs
![adult coral](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/102518_SM_coral-larvae_feat.jpg?fit=860%2C460&ssl=1)
DEEP FREEZE The first coral larvae to survive being frozen and then thawed by scientists are a kind of a mushroom coral (close-up of an adult coral shown with scattered greenish tentacles).
Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute