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Video: Coral's Dramatic Yet Slo-Mo Emergence From the Sea Floor

Discover how mushroom corals unearth themselves in time-lapse videos by researchers at the University of Queensland.

Written bySarah Zhang

2012-02-10T01:05:20 | 1 min read

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https://youtu.be/9pdmkckANH4 It's just a pile of sand--no wait, is that a tentacle wriggling in the corner? These time-lapse videos taken by researchers at the University of Queensland show that mushroom corals unearth themselves by slowly inflating and then deflating over 10 to 20 hours. See a second coral attempt the same after the jump. https://youtu.be/Pu0d101sMIk

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