Are you sitting comfortably? Then we'll begin the evolutionary 'fairytale' of coral

Science storytelling could be the way forward for science communication, so for your edification here's the story of the Three Little Corals ...

Science and storytelling don't seem like obvious bedfellows but recently there's been a serious vein of science communication research that suggests a strong narrative can help with dissemination, understanding by nonexperts and number one for most publishing scientists, citations.

Of course, sciencing the art of storytelling, with narrativity indices and reader appeal charts does sound typically soul-suckingly dry, but it is at the heart of the science communication movement and many of the Lost Worlds Revisited blogs are retellings of decades of palaeontological research into narratives with a beginning, middle and end.