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The bamboo coral. This would be
a new genius, if this is what I

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think it is. These upright
vertical branches don't have

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sub branches. Instead, it'll be
like a candelabra. They're all

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coming off of kind of like the
a base of a laterally extending

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branch so to speak. The older
they get, the more those

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vertical branches they add on
to the sides.

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Alright, so there's the middle
point. That looks like a triple

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junction, doesn't it? Yes, it
does. That's what I'm looking

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for. Beautiful. Beautiful. This
is it. We're going to be able

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to look at this to learn
something about the sclerites

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which are the small calcium
carbonate microscopic bits that

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are embedded in the soft tissue
that help create support. Those

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are very widely used in the
taxonomy of octacorals both for

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naming the species and for
identifying them later. This

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exquisite video that we get
from the explorer helps us with

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that to some degree.
Ultimately, you need to have it

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under a microscope. We're still
work at combining those two

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elements together.