The average household, for instance, consumes 5,000 pounds of coal each year and 1,000 gallons of gasoline. And if you include all the animals it takes to feed that household, the family of four can generate 20 tons of animal waste back into the environment. But hammering away at the Big Ones will probably make a large difference. I was told that a brain coral the size of a basketball was about 700 years old. Brain corals, so named because their folds and fissures resemble a mammalian brain, grow radially at the rate of about one-fifteenth of an inch each year.
Brain corals get their name from the folds and turns in the coral skeleton.
And he'd be the first one to tell you he's in a hurry. Rising water temperatures, new reef diseases and pollution now threaten the world's coral reefs with extinction. The tadpoles would get to the point where they had just grown back legs, and then die. I have not seen many frogs since then, and am concerned. The iridovirus is the newest in a long list of environmental and manmade pathogens suspected of killing and maiming thousands of frogs around the world.