It looks like a tree but actually the coral is an animal, similar in structure to jellyfish and anemones. Coral reefs are the cradle of many species of shrimps, fish, oysters . Coral morphology contains abundant genetic resources, keeping varieties of other marine resources. The following images will surprise you about the incredible beauty of the coral.
Coral reef column on small island in Florida
If you think this is a plant, that's not true.It is a type of soft lake living in deep water (Iciligorgia schrammi).One kind of like a giant opening (Plexaurella nutans), shorts itself with a hard base and moves slowly.One looks like an orange elephant-eared sponge (Agelas clathrodes)
The top of the photo is like a frozen moon.
A kind of soft gravel is like a single-celled protozoan
The coral is like a small animal called a single-celled protozoan.
A beautiful columnar coral (Dendrogyra cylindrus) in Florida
The tongue of the sea flaming snail?
Staghorn coral
Elkhorn (Acropora palmata) coral - a branch of coral.
