University of South Carolina Beaufort USC Beaufort professor Mercer R. Brugler has received exciting news from the scientific community: A newly discovered species of deep-sea black coral has been named in his honor. The species, Leiopathes brugleri, was recently described by scientists from the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History and international collaborators. The scientists discovered it during work to better underst…
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