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Monday, November 23, 2009

Photo: New Expedition to Study Mysterious Deep-Sea Corals


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A snapshot taken off the Aleutian Islands near Alaska shows the tremendous variation of deep-sea corals.

Scientists have announced a major study of these mysterious organisms, which promise to fill in large gaps in the marine evolutionary and climatic record.

Image courtesy Alberto Lindner/NOAA