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Close Up of Coral

Living Coral photo
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Coral on Eua Island. The coral "head", commonly perceived to be a single organism, is formed from thousands of individual but genetically identical polyps, each polyp only a few millimeters in diameter. Over thousands of generations, the polyps lay down a skeleton that is characteristic of their species.

 

 

 

 

 

Author & photographer: David Johnson (Virtual Tonga). Providing a credit or link is appreciated.
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