coral

11.21.08

Reef Madness

Survey finds new marine species

By Greg Soltis Posted 11.20.2008 at 12:18 pm 0 Comments

Big Red: This soft coral has branches of up to an inch long [shown here]. The animal, six inches tall and four inches wide, now lives in an aquarium at the Queensland Museum. Gary Cranitch

Last spring, scientists from the Queensland Museum in South Brisbane, Australia, discovered this new coral species hanging underneath a rocky ledge about 50 feet deep off the northern end of Australia’s Lizard Island. They now hope to classify the coral, along with hundreds of other recently discovered marine invertebrates.

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