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The gruesome task of cleaning the tissue and mucous off of a bamboo coral colony.


Shinobu Okano and Aurélie Shapiro have the gruesome task of cleaning the tissue and mucus off of a bamboo coral colony. Image courtesy of Jeff Pollack

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