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Orange Cup Coral
Photo: Cluster of orange cup coral on a support piling of a pier
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Orange cup coral clusters on a pier piling on Bonaire Island in the West Indies. About 80 percent of all life on Earth is found in the oceans, which cover 71 percent of the planet's surface.
Photograph by Paul A. Sutherland

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