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Coral Reefs

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Is the Coral a Byproduct of the Coral Reef?

The largest living structure on earth is the great barrier reef. Coral reefs cover less than one percent of the ocean, and yet they host 25 % of all species in the ocean. The coral that builds to day's reefs got together with the thezos anthali about a hundred million years agod. And so we are living within the greatest era of reef construction that earth has ever seen in geological history.

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