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Another World Hides inside Coral Reefs

By Susan Milius

- More than 2 years ago

Specialized video equipment snaked into small crevices in coral reefs of the Red

Multicolored sponges crowd the inside of a reef cavity. Wunsch

Sea has revealed a community that rivals the one visible outside.

“The largest habitat is inside,” contends Claudio Richter of the Center for

Tropical Marine Ecology in Bremen, Germany.