Corals
In Our Time: Science
00:00
Corall by R Aldo
Darwin's first book was called the zoology of the beagle. But corall, like most of darwin's writings, is a surprisingly easy and good read. You gat you get a feel for the excitement of seeing the stuff and understanding it for the first time. How do these tiny creatures make such enormous structures? We're told that the great australian barrier reef can't be seen from space or so on.
Transcript
Play full episode
