VIDEO: Cryogenics may be the key to saving Australia's Great Barrier Reef

Scientists may have come up with a way to preserve the Great Barrier Reef.

For decades, they've worried that one of Australia's great national treasures would be undone by pollution and other man-made influence. But now, they're hoping cryogencis will help put the reef back on solid footing.

"If we were to use it right now, we have the ability to take the sperm, thaw it out, re-animate it and fertilize eggs and create sexually produced coral," said Mary Hagedom, a scientist from the Smithsonian Institute.

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