ASIN: B00U47E9B0
Publisher: Charles River Editors
Pages: 57
*Includes pictures*Includes accounts of the reef and animals written by explorers*Includes a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents“Coral is a very beautiful and unusual animal. Each coral head consists of thousand of individual polyps. These polyps are continually budding and branching into genetically identical neighbors.” – Antony Garrett ListPeople have always loved to build things, whether it’s a feat of engineering in an underground subway or the construction of the world’s tallest skyscraper. Thus, it’s somewhat ironic that the largest structure ever built was not made by humans but by incredibly tiny organisms known as coral polyps. Over the course of tens of thousands of years, these small organisms have put together a collection of nearly 3,000 reefs that form a collective stretching across 130,000 square miles. It is often mistakenly claimed that the ...
