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Precious Coral
2012-04-03 15:42:00

Precious Coral, (Corallium rubrum), also known as red coral, is a species of marine coral found mainly in the Mediterranean Sea, where it grows at depths from 30 to 1000 feet below sea level. Its habitat is typically rocky sea bottom with low sedimentation, and usually in dark environments, such as caverns and crevices. Most of its shallow range has been depleted by harvesting. While mainly...

2012-04-03 15:24:52


Ivory Bush Coral
2012-04-03 15:16:30


Cauliflower Coral
2012-04-03 15:06:11

Cauliflower Coral, (Pocillopora meandrina), is a species of coral found in the East Pacific and the Indo-West Pacific. Its habitat is shallow reefs, protected lagoons and lower reef slopes. Colonies of this coral can be fairly solid and dome-shaped or branching with areas that are either flattened and ridge-like or fine and complex. The colonies are usually covered with wart-like growths...

Multicolored Sea Fan
2012-04-03 14:36:01


Moon Jellyfish
2012-04-03 14:23:18


Christmas Shearwater Puffinus nativitatis
2012-04-03 13:55:30


Amsterdam Albatross Diomedea amsterdamensis
2012-01-11 16:31:30


California Tiger Salamander
2010-07-27 12:40:35


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