Stylasteridae species [lace corals]
corals forming featherlike colonies.
corals and sea anemones having eight branches.
When talking about corals, people normally refer to stony corals that build fascinating reefs.
Most living corals are yellowish, brownish, or olive.
He wrote seminal books on orchids, insects, barnacles and corals.
corals having a treelike or fan-shaped horny skeleton.
Corals grow very slowly and some of the corals being damaged, sometimes irreparably, are hundreds of years old.
corals having calcareous skeletons aggregations of which form reefs and islands.
The seas around Bermuda are full of colourful corals and fantastic fish.
Bleaching occurs when overheated corals expel crucial algae that give them their colour.
Reproducing freely by means of buds and side branches, as corals do.
Low water temperature tolerance and responding mode of scleractinian corals in Sanya Bay
After the Precambrian Era, such marine invertebrate animal as trilobites, achiopods, nautiloids, horn corals, honeycomb corals and twiglike bryozoans were abundant during the Palaeozoic Era. The Palaeozoic was also the era when fishes, amphibians and reptiles appeared.
So far, the rising sea levels, dying corals and spreading algal blooms are only minor distractions for most people.
The corals familiar to most of us are colonies of small polyps that build calcium carbonate branches.
Shallow-water corals owe their beautiful colors in part to symbiotic algae, which live inside the coral cells.
Remains of more modern corals, diverse pelecypods, sea urchins and ammonoids characterize the marine strata of the Mesozoic Era.
There is gold and a store of corals: but the lips of knowledge are a jewel of great price.
Thus, corals and pteropods, which both produce aragonitic shells, and coralline algae, which manufacture magnesium calcite, may be especially susceptible to harm from ocean acidification.
The variations in isotopic ratios take place on the right time scale, and they mirror those seen in modern corals, he notes.
The global air pollution has initiated the continuous rise in the oceanic temperature and countless brilliantly coloured corals are becoming extinct.
Conservationists say longline gear also damages corals and other important habitat on the sea bottom, threatening both the turtles and the fish.
They anchor themselves with their prehensile tails to sea grasses and corals, using their elongated snouts to suck in plankton and small crustaceans that drift by.
The trees in the park are all smoking. Those brown stands, green corals, and big coconut trees were steamed and steamed in clusters, with a hot fog on top.
The guests took out the birthday ceremonies that had been prepared for a long time and sent them up with gold, silver and jade articles, agate pearls, emerald corals, exotic fun and dazzling scenery.
In the cave, there are piles of stalactites and stalagmites in curious shapes such as wild beasts and human figures which look like corals, ambers and jades under the coloured lights.
These sunken branches look like clusters of bright corals in the distance and strong feet of dragons in the near future, which makes the world of the sea rich and flexible.
Sunshine shines into the fixed storm, the Yushu Qiongzhi in the mountains are covered with ice blossoms like silver corals, and a section of ice falls off the tree tops occasionally, like broken glass, making a crisp sound.
