15 May 2009

Indonesia coral reef creatures




Top: Sea pen polyps are soft corals or octocorals and they are made up of polyps each with eight tentacles. Photograph: Travel Ink/Getty Images.

Middle: Acoel flatworm on bubble coral on Raja Ampat, Indonesia. Photograph: Norbert Wu/Science Faction.

Bottom: A necklace seastar on a gorgonian coral, Indonesia. Photograph: David Fleetham/Getty Images.
Always nice to end my blogging day with beautiful photographs. It's sad that these are endangered. More photos at the Guardian.

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