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massive reef-building coral having a convoluted and furrowed surface

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At these and other reefs, elkhorn, pillar, star, and brain corals harbor myriad underwater wildlife.

Paradise in peril: although conservation efforts and a vast national park are helping to protect natural resources on the U.S. Virgin Islands, increased tourism, a building boom, and other pressures threaten this still relatively unblemished territory

You already see branching species replacing massive slow-growing brain corals. We lost a 1,000-year-old coral head off Pandora Reef in '98.

AUSTRALIA: The Reefs Are Going Down Under

Elkhorn and brain corals there are remarkably healthy and vibrant, in stark contrast with colonies elsewhere in the Caribbean region that have been decimated by pollution and disease.

On an Obscure U.S. Island, Scientists Discover a Biological Treasure Trove

The corals themselves, though, are uniformly brown, except for a few purple sea fans; the branching corals appear pathetically truncated, and the brain corals blotched from stress.

Travel to exotic foreign lands! See beautiful coral reefs! And kill them! If the present rate of extinction continues, 70 percent of all corals will be dead in 20 to 40 years

Among the damaged corals is a species called brain corals, locally known as tampulong and binagong.

Ship feared to worsen coral damage

Some of the coral species have names that emphasize their principal physical characteristic, such as the ear, elkhorn, and brain corals. On the slopes are the fan coral, with broad and flat surfaces like plates, thus allowing them to capture all the light possible.

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