coral reefs, 201–30

adaptations of, 210–11, 218–19, 222–23

background, 201–2

biobanking and cryopreservation of, 224–25

biodiversity and, 205–6

bleaching and decline of, 202–4, 206–11, 229

conservation efforts, 151n, 154–55, 160–61, 162–63, 216–19

lionfish habitat, 30–31, 40, 42–43

mesophotic zone reefs, 211–17

Nassau grouper habitat, 131–34

of prehistoric seas, 7, 24–26

restoration efforts, 215, 219–30

Sargassum proliferation and, 191

value of, 206

Cornell University, 259

corridors (protected), 101–2

cownose ray, 90–91

crabs

eelgrass meadows and, 179–80

mining operations and, 164, 165

in prehistoric seas, 8, 15

remixing seas and, 32–34

Crawford Lake (Canada), 27

crayweed, 197–98, 197n

Crédit Mutuel, 259

crustaceans. See also crabs

chemical pollution and, 113

climate change and, 37–38

in “invented food,” 250–51

krill, 70–76, 71n, 121, 155–56, 234–35

plastic pollution and, 120

in prehistoric seas, 8, 24

as whale food source, 160

cryptic species complex, 261–63

Cuthill, Jennifer, 17

daggernose sharks, 86

Daikin, 116

Darwin, Charles, 5, 6

Darwin Mounds, 154–55

DDT, 112, 113–14, 119

deep sea mining operations, 162–65, 235–36, 251–57

desmostylians, 21–22

dinosaurs, 12–14, 12n, 16–17

disaster fauna, 11

dodos, 68–69

dogfish, 37, 79

dolphins. See also orcas

migration of, 51

pollution and orcas, 113–14, 118

in prehistoric seas, 20, 21, 21n