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Published online 7 May 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.803
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Brittlestars can survive acid oceans
But the biological cost of maintaining their skeletons may be too high.
As carbon dioxide levels rise, most researchers have assumed that increasingly acidic oceans will compromise the calcification processes of ocean organisms.
But new results show that one delicate species, a brittlestar, actually bumps up the speed of shell production, or calcification, under such conditions1.
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