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Coral Reefs

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Most coral get a majority of their food via their symbiotic relationship with zuos and thelly. They're little single-celled fellows capable of photosynthesis, which also give coral its wild colors. In 2016, scientists pointed lasers at coral and figured out that coral are even structured to especially scatter light across as much of their surface as possible so that all the colony can get a little light snack. And while this research was done on the familiar, fun colored shallow water coral everyone loves, this also applies to the paler, less popular branch of the coral family tree, deep water coral.

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