John Tyagarajan's Great Discovery: Saving the Coral Reefs

In a world full of mysteries and wonders, scientists are constantly working to uncover the secrets of the universe. One scientist in particular was determined to understand the ocean. His name was John Tyagarajan, an Indian biologist, who wanted to know more about the coral reefs. The coral reefs were colorful, but John knew that they were facing a big threat. They were losing their color, and their very existence was under threat from a thing called bleaching.

Bleaching is a process when corals turn white because they don’t have algae living in their tissues, and this happens when corals have poor water quality or are not healthy enough to support algae. John was concerned, but he didn’t give up. He was part of a team that decided to build an aquarium to create coral reefs with artificial seawater. Their aim was to study and help corals.

But what they discovered was more interesting. In their experiment, they found a very rare species of corals which lived deep in the Indian Ocean, they found coral polyps of certain corals to the West coast of India, and this rare coral species turned white under bleaching when there were pollutants present in their home waters. However the same species didn’t do this in clean waters where algae grows and corals got healthy by natural food from plankton or plants. That coral kept alive with healthy coral and also a very special relationship. So these scientists were excited about the same that some coral could still grow back healthy if other organisms lived in their symbiosis. In order to create and live happily in those new conditions that coral was very smart because it uses chemical to help its friends living together and keep themselves healthy.

Now their findings helped in conservation and protecting coral reefs from this pollution. But their story goes even further, after they discovered, new coral species in an area far to sea than it had ever existed in history of India’s waters before, John started wondering and to know about these coral polyps that had been able to stay white even in waters with little nutrients or even more surprising still be thriving where no nutrients are available in water due to very pure waters they had in our home. And here, something else very exciting was that in all this period scientists found coral polyps can adapt. Coral could be a sign of many adaptations going back millions and millions of years through time from our evolutionary tree in different conditions and their new discoveries showed their adaptations, were not always just the physical features as everyone assumes but, it can even be in what living together can bring. It shows adaptation has an essential part. These people in it thought, when the people first found humans and dogs were only able to walk like one other animal. And if someone finds humans in dogs, it wouldn’t take so much long. When this people discovered this about a few more animals, like cats too could only like one like human or like one we didn’t find it’s still more exciting because in a long time the animals in this situation don’t live like other people because only few people, in that part live in some small place like, or dogs, which would have gone far long time fr
om it was going, it never changed as an animal so this could live just one thing which animal can not like that because only people can use it and the world changed so people need animal so to help and make it good people like them for other help. The whole history has always seen, living, together animals, the living together for animals people always had thought, but John, in all the years of the research was found out animals living, the animals never did alone in history.

However what’s most fascinating of this is their findings also led them to discover another coral reefs discovery made many years ago when coral reefs used by humans for very many centuries to fish, coral and seaweed. But it used for many years to people to also have water source too.

This team also came to believe the importance of a water treatment, to help corals when there was the bleaching and other changes because water treatment also protects all sea life including these other tiny, plants called zooxanthellae which were on coral reef living by taking nutrients in carbon dioxide water so we should treat the sea properly like John was going through in those big changes.