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Letter: For the record

Published 13 April 2016

• Oh spawn it! Many people have in fact persuaded corals to breed in captivity (February, p 42).

• The geological feature associated with the demise of the dinosaurs consists of clay a few centimetres thick; a sub-layer a few millimetres thick is strongly enriched in the element iridium, compared with the rest of Earth (2 April, p 8).

Issue no. 3069 published 16 April 2016

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