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Tangential: It’s amazing to realize that corals are in fact animals. Though coral may look like a colorful plant growing from roots in the seafloor, it is actu
by baxtr 4y ago
Tangential: It’s amazing to realize that corals are in fact animals.
Though coral may look like a colorful plant growing from roots in the seafloor, it is actually an animal.
Source: https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/coral https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/coral
- eloisius 4y agoOr colonies of millions of tiny animals. They are indeed fascinating and beautiful. I just went diving this morning and I’m in my way to a second dive right now. The effects of bleaching are visible, and it pains me to think that in my lifetime they could disappear.
- baxtr 4y agoYou're checking HN while you are on the way to your second dive this morning? Wow.
- eloisius 4y agoIt’s pretty bad…
- baxtr 4y agoI feel you... And now put down that damn phone and enjoy the dive! :D
- daniel-cussen 4y ago
- UncleOxidant 4y agoColonies of millions of tiny animals that incorporate plants into their tissues in order to generate energy from the sun.
- throwawaylinux 4y agoAlso many shallow water coral actually get their color from photosynthesizing single-celled organisms they live in symbiosis with. Coral bleaching happens when the animal kicks out this cell, the animal isn't necessarily dead.